# Senior Software Engineer, Training & Experimentation at Lightning AI

- Company: Lightning AI
- What the company does: From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don. Backed by Index.
- Company website: https://lightning.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom; New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lightningai/jobs/7837299003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lightning-ai-senior-software-engineer-training-and-experimentation/

## About the role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design and scale the backend systems that make AI development faster, more reliable, and easier to use. You'll work across distributed training infrastructure, workload orchestration, experiment management, developer tooling, and platform APIs while partnering closely with our Managed Infrastructure, Core Platform, and Optimized Compute teams.

## What they're looking for

- Extensive experience building scalable backend systems using Go, Python, Rust, or similar languages
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, APIs, and cloud-native application architecture
- Experience designing and operating production services at scale
- Hands-on experience building backend platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure products
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Proven ability to take ownership of large technical initiatives from architecture through production

Tags: Product Engineering