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Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer

Inception Labs · San Mateo, United States · On-site

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About Inception Labs

We are leveraging diffusion technology to develop a new generation of LLMs. Our dLLMs are much faster and more efficient than traditional autoregressive LLMs. Backed by AI Grant and Amplify.

About the role

We seek experienced software engineers to build the applications, platforms, tooling, and infrastructure that make every team at Inception more productive. You'll own and drive customer use cases, build product features, development environments, and internal tools — that directly accelerate our ability to bring the latest AI technology to our customers.

What they're looking for

  • Develop new product features to unlock new customer use cases
  • Create and maintain development environments, tooling, and workflows that improve developer velocity
  • Build internal tools and dashboards for experiment tracking, resource management, and operational visibility
  • Establish and promote engineering best practices around testing, code review, release management, and incident response
  • Collaborate across research, ML infrastructure, and product teams to understand pain points and prioritize high-impact improvements
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
More about this role

Inception creates the world’s fastest, most efficient AI models. Our Mercury model is the world’s fastest reasoning LLM and first commercially available diffusion LLM, delivering 5x greater speed and efficiency than today’s LLMs, with best-in-class quality.

We are the AI researchers and engineers behind such breakthrough AI technologies as diffusion models, flash attention, and DPO.

The Role

We seek experienced software engineers to build the applications, platforms, tooling, and infrastructure that make every team at Inception more productive. You'll own and drive customer use cases, build product features, development environments, and internal tools — that directly accelerate our ability to bring the latest AI technology to our customers. This role is ideal for engineers who care deeply about customer experience and developer velocity and want to work at a company where the software you build is a force multiplier on a world-class research and engineering org.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop new product features to unlock new customer use cases
  • Create and maintain development environments, tooling, and workflows that improve developer velocity.
  • Build internal tools and...

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