Member of Technical Staff Production You

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Location: London

Employment Type: Full time

Department: Engineering

Compensation: UK 100K - 250K; US 150K - 400K. We aim to pay 90th percentile for the industry. All roles include meaningful equity ownership.

Company: Slingshot AI - the team behind Ash, the first AI designed for mental health. We aim to make support more accessible and help people change their lives. We are building a world class team with autonomy, flexibility, and support. We have offices in NYC and London, are a well funded Series A company, raised $93M from Andreessen Horowitz, Radical Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, and others.

This is a chance to join a passionate team leveraging cutting edge AI to improve mental health access globally. As a Member of Technical Staff focused on Production Engineering, you will build the platform that powers Ash at scale, working across voice and AI stacks, internal services, and the data systems around them, improving observability, deployment, and platform tooling.

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of operating production systems at meaningful scale in high growth, high quality environments.
• Strong systems instincts and real opinions about latency, reliability, and cost. You know what breaks first under load, and you design around it.
• Driven by creating a world class product, want to own what you build, and are happy redesigning systems as production teaches you something new.
• Comfortable building across the full stack, a keen learner who picks up new languages, technology stacks, and concepts quickly.
• Experience working in a fast paced environment, taking systems from prototype to scaled production in weeks.
• Nice to have: experience working on production AI inference or model serving systems; on realtime systems such as voice, live communications, or streaming; on large scale data pipelines or evaluation systems; and with ML codebases (interest in AI helps).

• Collaborate within a cross functional team spanning engineering, machine learning, and product to quickly design, build, and launch new features across the stack.
• Work across all parts of our stack - core backend (Kotlin), ML scripts for evaluation, data processing and inference (Python), low level media streaming (Rust), the app (Dart/Flutter), and internal tooling (Next.js/TypeScript).
• Elevate user experience by continually refining the reliability, performance, and scalability of the systems behind Ash.
• Rapidly investigate, diagnose, and resolve production issues with a focus on latency, reliability, and cost.
• Take initiative to independently prototype new features based on customer feedback and your own product intuitions.

• A chance to join a passionate tight knit team working on something to change the world.
• Competitive compensation (top of personal market).
• Travel between our NYC / London offices.
• Usual startup perks: free lunch and coffee in office plus generous learning budget.
• We cover your personal therapy.

Compensation Range: 100K - 250K (UK) / 150K - 400K (US)