Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 1w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Ripline is an applied research lab deploying specialized intelligence in critical industries. The Member of Technical Staff is a generalist role working closely with founders on product direction, implementation, and deployments. The role emphasizes autonomy and customer experience, with work spanning agent runtime infrastructure, post-training, enterprise data ingestion, and interfaces for interacting with and observing deployed agents.
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Full job description
About Ripline Ripline is an applied research lab deploying specialized intelligence in critical industries (i.e. aerospace, defense, and more). Our focus is to deploy agents that automate operational work. We’re backed by Khosla Ventures (Adrian Radu, Keith Rabois), Hanabi Capital (Shreyan Jain, Mike Volpi), SV Angel, SF1, and other investors. Our angels include founders/execs at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Cursor, Decagon, CoreWeave, Profound, Northwood Space, Solidworks, and more.
About the Role Member of Technical Staff is a generalist position where you will collaborate closely with the founders on product direction, implementation, and deployments. This role has high autonomy and requires exercising high agency. When you find a thread worth pursuing , you pursue it. Customer experience is supreme and should be the lens in which you problem solve.
What you'll do
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Own the agent runtime. Scaffold out durable agentic infrastructure for long-horizon tasks.
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Post-training. Create post-training recipes using pipeline RL and make optimizations for max gpu utilization
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Context Engineering. Automate ingestion of extremely unstructured and messy enterprise datalakes.
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Design platform interfaces for interacting with agents and providing observability over current deployments.
What we're looking for
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Meaningful product engineering experience in industry.
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Strong backend and systems engineering fundamentals with a heavy emphasis on distributed systems.
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Deep expertise in agent architectures and LLM-powered applications
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Familiarity with TypeScript, Next.js, and Python
Nice to have
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Experience with RLHF, async RL techniques, or similar learning systems
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Previous founder or founding engineer
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Background in hardware/critical industries
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Having worked in ITAR-regulated environments
How this job compares
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- Pay
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- California median$165–245K/yr7,752 salary ranges
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- Experience
- Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (33,511 postings).
- Education
- 15,295 of the 41,339 open Software Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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