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Remote Backend / Platform Engineer, AI Analytic Engines

at ThirdLaw, Inc.

Posted 1 week ago | 0 applied

Description:

  • ThirdLaw is building the control layer for AI in the enterprise, addressing safety, compliance, and operational risks associated with AI adoption.
  • The company helps IT and Security teams determine if AI behavior is acceptable and enables real-time action when it is not.
  • The role involves building and scaling systems that reconcile latency, correctness, and observability across distributed pipelines.
  • Responsibilities include architecting scalable, low-latency services for real-time and batch evaluations, integrating with streaming data pipelines.
  • The engineer will design and build the core evaluation engine that detects violations across LLM inputs and outputs.
  • A runtime intervention layer will be created to execute enforcement actions based on evaluation results and risk context.
  • The position requires creating reusable frameworks for pluggable evaluators and intervention policies, supporting no-code authoring and automated deployment.
  • The engineer will configure and operationalize a vector database pipeline for RAG-like use cases and implement reliability controls for scalability.

Requirements:

  • Candidates must have 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, including designing and shipping production software services.
  • Strong coding proficiency in Python and/or Go is required.
  • Deep experience with streaming data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Pulsar, Redis Streams) and batch processing systems is necessary.
  • A proven track record of scaling high-QPS, low-latency services is essential, with p95/p99 ownership being a plus.
  • Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Weaviate, Qdrant, pgvector) and embedding-based matching is required.
  • A strong grasp of cloud-native infrastructure, including containers, Kubernetes, serverless functions, and CI/CD pipelines, is needed.
  • Exposure to structured observability patterns, such as OpenTelemetry or similar tracing standards, is important.
  • Candidates should be comfortable designing and defending trade-offs around build vs buy vs OSS.

Benefits:

  • The position offers the opportunity to work on innovative projects that shape the safe deployment of AI technologies.
  • Employees will be part of a small, focused team that values autonomy and real impact over titles and management.
  • The role encourages proactive mindsets and clear written communication, with a strong emphasis on asynchronous work.
  • Team members will have the chance to work closely with customers to shape products and contribute to the mission of ensuring AI trust and safety.