Backend/AI Engineer

Reducto is a company that helps AI teams ingest real world enterprise data with state of the art accuracy. As a Backend/AI Engineer, you'll work on the core API that powers document parsing for hundreds of companies, integrating cutting-edge LLMs and building infrastructure for document understanding.

What you'll do:

• Integrating and optimizing LLM calls for structured extraction, form filling, and document understanding tasks
• Making improvements to API design and pre-processing algorithms (chunking, structured extraction, etc.) based on customer feedback
• Building and improving document processing pipelines that handle everything from PDFs to spreadsheets at scale
• Experimenting with new techniques and output structures to improve LLM accuracy and reduce latency
• Building internal tooling and evals to better understand/analyze failure cases
• Working directly with the founders and customers to shape the product direction and engineering strategy

What they're looking for:

• 2+ years of experience building real world applications and integrating LLMs into production systems
• Exceptional at Python
• Ability to build your own tools as needed—like a quick Streamlit app to test hypotheses or create a dataset
• A quantitative approach to building products
• Ability to debug, experiment, and iterate fast
• Comfortable getting hands-on with the full development lifecycle, from ideation to shipping to users
• Prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages
• Experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or building AI agents
• Ambitious and driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people
• Keep up with the latest developments in ML/AI

Benefits:

• Unlimited PTO: We believe great work requires recharging.
• Lunch: Receive a free lunch to eat with your teammates daily at the office
• Reimbursed Transportation: Provide us with your receipts and we’ll take care of the costs
• Insurance: Generous health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision.
• Health and Wellness Budget: We provide up to $150/mo reimbursement for health and wellness spending, such as gym memberships, fitness classes, or similar.
• Parental Leave: Work with us to build a leave schedule that works for you and your family