Backend Engineer

Posted 10 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
3-5 Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence
The Role
The Backend Engineer will design prototypes, analyze trade-offs, and implement research in ML and blockchain. Responsibilities include iterating on production-grade solutions, reviewing code, and deploying decentralized systems. Collaboration with product and research teams is crucial for developing AI-native applications.
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About Ritual 

Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI. Our first phase, Infernet, is the first product of its kind to enable developers to access models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain. Our next phase, the Ritual chain, will be an execution layer custom-built to support AI-native operations and enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI.

About the role

Your responsibilities will include designing prototypes, analyzing solution trade-offs, formalizing technical decisions, and implementing novel research. You will work closely with engineers and operators with deep experience building and shipping products in the ML and blockchain space.

  • Partner closely with Ritual product, and research teams to design prototypes and iterate with the engineering team towards production-grade solutions
  • Review code and technical proposals with feedback for other team members
  • Work in domains such as distributed/p2p systems, AI/ML, and blockchain/cryptocurrency
  • Use tools and languages such as Python/Pytorch, Rust, GCP
  • Use your experience to build, test, debug, and deploy large-scale decentralized systems across hundreds of nodes

About you

  • Be fluent in a systems’ language such as Rust, C, C++, assembly languages, shell scripting, DSLs etc
  • Have a level of expertise in one or more of networking, distributed systems, storage, databases, operating systems, and runtimes to be able to read research papers in the field and design systems based on them
  • Experience building and shipping production-level systems or applications; emphasis for systems involving ML or incentive design
  • Strong communication and collaboration abilities

Why join us 

  • Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure 
  • Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
  • Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
  • 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare 
  • Aggressive company 401k match
  • Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
  • Participate in virtual and in-person events
  • Much much more!

Top Skills

Python,Rust
The Company
13 Employees
Remote Workplace

What We Do

Ritual is an open, sovereign execution layer for AI. Seamlessly integrate AI into your app or protocol on any chain, enabling you to fine-tune, monetize, and perform inference on models with cryptographic schemes.

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