Boson Ai

Software Engineer - Platform & Application

$150K–$270K

Santa Clara HQ · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026

Experience: 0–2 years of professional software engineering experience; internships, co-ops, and strong personal or open-source projects count. Alternatively, a recent CS degree with equivalent hands-on work.
Education: Recent CS degree with equivalent hands-on work is stated as an alternative to the experience requirement.

About the job

Build and operate the platform infrastructure behind Boson AI’s model APIs and agentic products, including distributed services, data pipelines, and context systems.

What you'll do

Contribute to API serving, state management, policy enforcement, and agentic workflow execution infrastructure.
Build and maintain distributed services and data pipelines for model APIs, analytics, and billing.
Improve SDKs, context and memory systems, observability, and platform reliability.

What they ask for

Solid programming fundamentals and interest in backend and distributed systems, including concurrency and fault tolerance.
Some exposure to backend services, APIs, or data processing through work, coursework, or projects.
Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, Java, Rust, or C++; willingness to learn new languages.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), containers (Docker/K8s), version control, and CI/CD, or enthusiasm to learn them.

Nice to have

Coursework, projects, or internship experience with LLM serving, retrieval, or agentic systems.
Exposure to data pipeline tools (Kafka/Kinesis, Spark/Flink, Airflow), agent frameworks, or real-time media systems.

Pay

USD 150,000–270,000 (per-year-salary) — base salary

Tools

Python, Go, Java, Rust, C++, AWS/GCP, Docker/K8s, Kafka/Kinesis

AI focus

Build platform infrastructure for model APIs and agentic products; support context retrieval, memory systems, model serving, voice runtime, and agentic workflows.

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