# Software Engineer, Backend
**Company:** [Anara](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anara)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $150K-$200K
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, RAG, Agent Architectures, Prompt Engineering, Kubernetes, Python, Scalable Infrastructure, Eval Pipelines, Monitoring, Ai Pipelines
**Posted:** 2026-01-07
> Builds scalable backend infrastructure for AI-powered research tools, focusing on RAG pipelines, LLMs, agent architectures, prompt engineering, and performance optimization. Requires hands-on experience scaling products and working in fast-paced startups.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Designing and building scalable infrastructure for AI-powered research tools.
- Collaborating closely with the engineering team on our RAG pipeline, continuously improving response quality, latency and robustness.
- Establishing best practices for prompt engineering and deployment of new models and workflows.
- Monitoring and optimizing system performance and costs, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep us lean and moving fast.
- Owning the design and automation of eval pipelines to continuously measure, benchmark and improve AI agent quality and reliability.

## Requirements
- Quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder.
- Blend excellent engineering with a taste for models and design.
- Worked on back end agent behaviors and have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, and agent architectures.
- Have independently built and scaled a product to at least a few thousand users (e.g. a side project or open-source project).
- Have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight.

## Compensation
- $150K - $200K
- 0.50% - 1.00% equity
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