Member of Technical Staff, Founding Backend Engineer
About the role
Founding Backend Engineer role at Ocular AI, a fast-growing startup building data annotation and AI tooling platforms. Work directly with founders to design and develop backend systems for production, with high ownership and strategic impact in a 3-person team.
Responsibilities
- Deploying, Training and Fine Tuning AI Models.
- Developing and Scaling An Internal Analytics System.
- Building Data pipelines to evaluate model performance, and integrate AI models into the product
- Working directly with the founders and customers to shape the product direction and engineering strategy
Qualifications
- 3+ years experience developing software with Python/Node and PostgreSQL for production systems.
- Hands-on experience training ML models, building chatbots, or using AI APIs.
- Experience deploying on AWS, GCP, or Azure with Docker skills and the ability to set up databases and queues (e.g., Redis, RabbitMQ).
- Open to working in person at our office in SF
Skills
Benefits
- 401k
- Health Insurance (Dental + Vision)
- Annual Company Retreats
- Mental Health Stipend
- Work setup stipend (MacBook, Monitor, & Accessories)
About Ocular AI
AI-Native Data Engine for LLMs, Computer Vision, & Enterprise AI
Ocular AI is the data annotation engine for Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Enterprise AI models. We help you transform unstructured, multi-modal data into golden datasets to power generative AI, frontier models, and computer vision. Ocular Foundry is the most intuitive, data-centric, and fastest platform that lets you label, annotate, version, and deploy your data for training models. It also orchestrates your annotation jobs, improving collaboration with members and annotators. With Ocular Bolt, shift from humans in the loop to experts in the loop to supercharge your data labeling and annotation projects. Our global expert workforce ensures fast, accurate results—no matter the scale or complexity of your data. Companies spend huge amounts on training data, but Foundry and Bolt are AI-native tools that lower costs, reduce manual effort, and accelerate high-quality data collection. We’re replacing outdated, clunky, and expensive data software!
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