Forward Engineer

<h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>As a Forward Engineer at Metis, you’ll be part of a tight-knit, product-driven team leveraging our training platform to deliver outcomes for customers. You’ll work across the stack, from low-level systems to user-facing features, to deliver resilient, high-performance products that power mission-critical AI workflows. You’ll own projects end-to-end, collaborate deeply with platform, research, and customers to make pragmatic technical decisions that tie directly to customer outcomes.</p> <p>We move fast, but we hold a very high bar for correctness, maintainability, and simplicity. You’ll be expected to write production-grade code, reason holistically about systems, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in applied AI engineering.</p> <h2><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Translate research prototypes into production systems that enterprises and labs can reliably adopt</li> <li>Collaborate with platform, product and research teams to ship features under real customer constraints</li> <li>Write clean, testable code in modern languages while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development</li> <li>Debug complex systems, identify bottlenecks, and drive performance, security, and reliability improvements</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Requirements</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Strong fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)</li> <li>Experience with backend systems, distributed computing, or high-volume services</li> <li>Strong communication abilities with a high bar for customer interaction</li> <li>Ability to turn ambiguous product asks into simple, pragmatic solutions</li> <li>Familiarity with system design, software engineering best practices, and debugging in production environments</li> <li>Comfortable working across the stack — from APIs and orchestration to user-facing surfaces</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Compensation &amp; Benefits</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Base: $150,000–$450,000</li> <li>Significant Equity</li> <li>Full medical, dental, and vision</li> <li>Wellness &amp; L&amp;D stipend</li> <li>Equinox membership</li> <li>Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided (Unlimited Doordash)</li> <li>$25,000 housing stipend</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About Metis</strong></h2> <p>Metis helps enterprises and labs build the most reliable AI agents by leveraging post-training. Our platform enables the creation, improvement, and deployment of the most capable frontier agents designed for rigorous, real-world workflows.</p> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Momentum</strong></div> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">0 → six-figure monthly revenue in the last six weeks</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Working with several Fortune 500 enterprises &amp; frontier AI labs</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0">Growing 150%+ MoM</li> </ul> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Backed by</strong></div> <div class="p-rich_text_section">&nbsp;</div> <div class="p-rich_text_section">Y Combinator, CRV, and executives from OpenAI, Google, Mercor, NVIDIA, and others.</div>