Build AI
Software Engineer, Generalist
$180K–$300K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 30, 2026
- Experience
- 1–5+ years shipping software end to end; ideally in a 0→1 or startup environment.
About the job
Build and ship production software across Build AI’s data platform, customer-facing products, data pipelines, hardware integrations, and internal tools.
What you'll do
- Identify high-leverage business-critical gaps and deliver production-quality code.
- Build backend services, APIs, and pipelines for incoming datasets.
- Integrate collection devices, cloud infrastructure, and software services; develop interfaces and workflows across teams.
What they ask for
- Strong full-stack skills and fluency in Python plus at least one of TypeScript, React, Go, or C++.
- Experience shipping software end to end.
- Ability to ramp quickly in unfamiliar codebases and domains.
- Bias toward action, comfort with incomplete information, and experience shipping in an undefined role.
Nice to have
- Experience across backend, frontend, data, infrastructure, and scripting; or hardware-adjacent, AI, or large-scale data systems.
- Prior startup experience during hypergrowth; infrastructure or DevOps experience (Linux, containers, cloud).
Pay
$180K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, React, Go, C++, Linux, containers, cloud
AI focus
Contribute to AI and research across disciplines; the company’s work includes collecting physical labor data and training models.
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