About LandingAI:
LandingAI is leading the Visual AI revolution with a platform that empowers enterprises to unlock the value of their visual data. Our platform includes:
- LandingLens™, our flagship enterprise solution for labeling, training and building deep learning vision models.
- VisionAgent™, our forward-looking AI Pilot for developers building end-to-end VisualAI solutions.
Founded by Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera, founding lead of Google Brain, and former chief scientist at Baidu, LandingAI is uniquely positioned to lead the development of AI from a technology that benefits a few to a technology that benefits all.
About the Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend - Fullstack), you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure for VisionAgent™, our generative Visual AI application builder. Your work will ensure the platform is scalable, secure, and high-performing, enabling users to create and deploy vision-enabled applications efficiently.
This role involves architecting AI-powered services, optimizing data pipelines, and improving developer experience through internal tooling and workflow automation. You will collaborate with Machine Learning Engineers, Product Managers, and other cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business needs. Your contributions will directly impact the success of VisionAgent by enhancing its reliability and usability for end users.
Key Responsibilities:
- Owning and defining architecture for AI-powered applications and services, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability across teams.
- Designing, developing, and deploying backend infrastructure and AI services with a focus on high availability, performance, and reliability.
- Leading cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with Machine Learning Engineers, Product Managers, and other teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
- Driving innovation by making strategic technical decisions, setting best practices, and mentoring engineers to elevate the team’s technical bar.
- Improving developer experience by building internal tooling, streamlining workflows, and optimizing deployment pipelines.
- Ensuring seamless data flow, building high-throughput, secure, and scalable data pipelines to support AI model training and deployment.
- Championing best practices in software engineering, ensuring high-quality code, rigorous testing, and well-documented design decisions.
What you will bring:
- Required Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in software development, with a strong backend or full-stack engineering background.
- Expertise in backend development, with proficiency in Python or Node.js and modern web frameworks like FastAPI, Express.js, Next.js
- Strong software architecture skills, with experience designing and scaling distributed systems and cloud-based applications.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
- Database expertise, including SQL, NoSQL, and data streaming solutions.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Proficiency in software engineering best practices, including code reviews, unit testing, CI/CD pipelines, and system design.
- Ability to mentor engineers, foster collaboration, and drive alignment across technical teams.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical challenges into business impact.
- Flexible Work Hours willing to work flexible hours to coordinate with a globally distributed team.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Computer Vision, LLMs, or Large Multimodal Models (LMMs).
- Background in developer-facing products and building intuitive APIs.
LandingAI Benefits:
- Stock Awards – We want you to share in our success with equity grants.
- Comprehensive Healthcare – Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- *Wellness Stipend – Support for your health and well-being, whether it’s fitness programs or self-care.
- *Lifelong Learning – An education stipend to help you grow and keep learning.
- Generous PTO – We know life happens outside of work, and we want you to enjoy it.
- *Global Team & Fun Events – Work with amazing colleagues across North America, Latin America, and Asia, and connect through virtual and in-person events.
- *Subject to country of employment
To succeed at LandingAI, you will have to fit well with our LandingAI Principles. Please take the time to read and understand them as they define who we are and what we look for in our candidates.
Although we are headquartered in Palo Alto, this role is hybrid for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the expectation to work from our Palo Alto office 2-3 days a week. For candidates located on the West Coast (outside the Bay Area), this role is fully remote. The position also requires flexibility to collaborate with our international teams.
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Who is AI Fund?
We are a team of AI pioneers, proven entrepreneurs, seasoned operators, and venture capitalists that collaborates with leading entrepreneurs to solve big challenges using artificial intelligence.
Founded in 2017 by Dr. Andrew Ng, AI Fund is backed with $176 million in capital by some of the leading VC firms and investors, including NEA, Sequoia, and Greylock.
How Are We Different?
We work with entrepreneurs during their startup’s most critical and risky phase, from 0 to 1. At the earliest stages, your company strategy is still being formed, and you’re still on the path to demonstrating your idea’s full potential – this is a reality we understand. This is the period when decisions on product strategy, market fit, and team are most critical, moving fast and fixing parts of your business when you have limited resources is a challenge.
We believe the best way to help entrepreneurs is by providing our time, expertise, and resources to help flesh out these key strategic decisions. Making the right decisions at the right time can often make the difference. We are here to improve these dynamics, at a time when the help matters the most.
Why Work With AI Fund?
Getting a startup from idea to Series A funding is not easy. We’ve been there and understand the challenges you must overcome. Whether you desire limited help and just want access to our unique ecosystems of AI experts and entrepreneurs or you would like our full support, we are interested in the opportunity to help in your success.
We are flexible in how we work with companies, but ultimately, we are here to maximize your chance of success and accelerate getting your company to market. We provide the capital, expertise, and resources to accelerate the work required to minimize risks in your startup, help you rise above the noise, and make your company more attractive to new investors.
