Anara · 2 weeks ago
Software Engineer, Backend
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$150K/yr - $200K/yrAnara is a rapidly growing company aiming to achieve 100 years of scientific progress in the next decade. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to build scalable infrastructure for AI-powered research tools and improve system performance and reliability.
Software
Responsibilities
Designing and building scalable infrastructure for AI-powered research tools
Collaborating closely with the rest of the engineering team on our RAG pipeline, continuously improving response quality, latency and robustness
Establishing best practices for prompt engineering and deployment of new models and workflows
Monitoring and optimizing system performance and costs, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep us lean and moving fast
Owning the design and automation of eval pipelines to continuously measure, benchmark and improve AI agent quality and reliability
Qualification
Required
Designing and building scalable infrastructure for AI-powered research tools
Collaborating closely with the rest of the engineering team on our RAG pipeline, continuously improving response quality, latency and robustness
Establishing best practices for prompt engineering and deployment of new models and workflows
Monitoring and optimizing system performance and costs, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep us lean and moving fast
Owning the design and automation of eval pipelines to continuously measure, benchmark and improve AI agent quality and reliability
You are quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder
You blend excellent engineering with a taste for models and design
You've worked on back end agent behaviors and have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, and agent architectures
Have independently built and scaled a product to at least a few thousand users (e.g. a side project or open-source project)
Have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight
Benefits
Premium healthcare (medical, dental, etc.)
Flexible working hours
Office space with a beautiful view of the San Francisco marina and Golden Gate bridge
Company
Anara
Anara helps researchers understand, organize and write scientific documents
Founded in 2023
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$2.4MKey Investors
Y Combinator
2024-10-18Seed· $2.2M
2024-09-10Pre Seed· $0.2M
Leadership Team
Naveed Janmohamed
Founder
Recent News
2025-11-29
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