Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (Multiple Seniority Levels)

End-to-End Ownership: Drives work from design through production, including on-call and continuous improvement.

LLM Systems Experience: Shipped or operated LLM-powered applications in production. Familiar with RAG design, prompt versioning, and chain orchestration using LangChain or similar.

AWS Depth: Strong with core AWS services such as VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, S3, ECS/EKS, Lambda, Step Functions, Bedrock, and SageMaker.

Data Engineering Skills: Comfortable building ingestion and transformation pipelines in Python. Familiar with Glue, Athena, and event-driven patterns using EventBridge and SQS.

Security Mindset: Applies least privilege, secrets management, network isolation, and compliance practices appropriate to sensitive data.

Evaluation and Metrics: Uses quantitative evals, A/B testing, and live metrics to guide improvements.

Clear Communication: Explains tradeoffs and aligns partners across product, security, and application engineering.

4+ years working with serverless or container platforms on AWS.

Experience with vector databases, OpenSearch, or pgvector at scale.

Hands-on with Bedrock Guardrails, Knowledge Bases, or custom policy engines.

Familiarity with GPU workloads, Triton Inference Server, or TensorRT-LLM.

Experience with big data tools for large-scale processing and search.

Background in aviation data or other safety-critical domains.

DevOps or DevSecOps experience automating CI/CD for ML and app services.

Work Location This is a hybrid role based in San Carlos, CA, with 3+ days per week onsite and the option to work remotely on remaining days.

Perks & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)

Healthcare: 100%* of employee medical premiums covered; 25% for dependents

Time Off: 3 weeks PTO plus 13+ paid company holidays

401(k): Offered (no current employer match, but we are committed to enhancing this benefit in the future)

Due to U.S. export control regulations, we can only hire U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, lawful permanent residents, or individuals granted asylum or refugee status). We are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support visa transfers. All work must be performed in the United States.

Beacon AI is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We prohibit harassment or discrimination of any kind in the workplace and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local employment laws.