Red Cell Partners - Member of Technical Staff, Platform Engineer (New Stealth Startup)
Requirements
• 6+ years of professional experience building full-stack applications, backend systems, distributed systems, or platform infrastructure. • Deep proficiency in TypeScript, React, and modern backend architecture. • Strong experience designing and building scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. • Solid understanding of PostgreSQL, data modeling, distributed systems, and system design. • Demonstrated experience building and operating production systems on AWS or GCP. • Experience developing reliable, observable, and performant production systems. • Ability to translate research or product requirements into maintainable technical architectures and implementations. • Experience working with model training, model evaluation, reinforcement learning environments, AI agents, or data-generation systems is preferred. • Strong understanding of software engineering practices, including testing, code review, technical documentation, and production operations. • Sharp problem-solving capabilities and the ability to diagnose complex issues across the technology stack. • Ability to collaborate effectively with teams across functions and geographies. • Strong written and verbal communication skills. • U.S. citizenship is required. • Salary Range: $200,000-350,000 + equity. This represents the typical base salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
Responsibilities
• Architect and scale our reinforcement learning environments platform and the underlying infrastructure required to support data collection at scale. • Build and operate scalable backend services, APIs, and data-generation pipelines. • Develop modular environment domains that integrate directly with model training and evaluation workflows. • Translate research requirements and prototypes into reliable, production-quality systems. • Build intuitive full-stack tools and interfaces that support research, engineering, and operational workflows. • Design resilient systems with a strong focus on reliability, observability, performance, maintainability, and security. • Develop and maintain data models, storage systems, and platform integrations. • Improve platform architecture and engineering practices to increase developer velocity and system quality. • Partner closely with Research, Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to define technical requirements and advance a shared roadmap. • Participate actively in technical design discussions and contribute sound judgment to architecture and system-design decisions. • Diagnose complex system issues and drive technical problems through resolution. • Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code while helping establish a high standard for engineering quality. • You are an experienced full-stack engineer with deep strength in backend systems and platform architecture. • You enjoy transforming complex research requirements into scalable, reliable software. • You can move comfortably between system architecture, data models, backend services, infrastructure, and user-facing applications. • You approach engineering decisions with an understanding of both immediate product needs and long-term platform implications. • You are comfortable working with evolving requirements and bringing structure to technically ambiguous problems. • You prioritize reliability, observability, maintainability, and performance rather than treating them as follow-on activities. • You make pragmatic technical decisions without compromising the quality of the underlying system. • You communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies clearly. • You work effectively across research, product, engineering, and operations teams. • You demonstrate high agency, strong technical judgment, and accountability for outcomes. • You are motivated by the purpose and real-world impact of the work, not simply by access to emerging technologies.
Benefits
• Our Red Cell Partners Benefits (may differ for each incubation): • For full-time roles • Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows • 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. • Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay. • Unlimited PTO, with management approval. • Opportunities for professional development and continued learning. • Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available. • Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind. • Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.
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