Software Engineer - AI Platform
Superblocks
Software Engineering, Data Science
New York, NY, USA
USD 175k-225k / year + Equity
Posted on Sep 11, 2025
Software Engineer - AI Platform
New York City (HQ)
Engineering
In office
Full-time
Superblocks is reimagining software development for a billion builders. Our mission is to help every team build, deploy, and manage AI-powered software with full control and flexibility.
Why Join Us?
We’re one of the fastest-growing AI startups, backed by top-tier investors and widely adopted by companies like Instacart, Sofi, Betterment, and Carrier. Our team comes from Uber, Stripe, Datadog, Confluent, Elastic, and Google, and has founded/architected systems like Kafka, Kibana, Debezium, Datadog APM, and more.
Since launching Clark, our AI builder, the response has been overwhelming with strong adoption from enterprises across different industries.
We’re fully in-person at our NYC HQ near Union Square and are looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about creating great products.
The Role
We’re looking for senior AI engineers to architect the next-generation real-time execution, deployment, governance, and auditing layer for AI applications, workflows, and agents. You’d be joining our all-star team with deep expertise in large-scale execution/data infrastructure, AI-native application architecture, database designs, and observability.
If you love working in a collaborative, fast-paced, and customer-focused environment, this role is for you.
Responsibilities:
- Build, deploy, and optimize enterprise-grade AI models and AI workflows in production.
- Design and develop a real-time distributed execution engine that powers all AI applications, workflows, and agents.
- Implement scalable, robust architectures supporting multi-tenancy and hybrid on-premise deployments, complete with an API and security layer and a fully extensible integrations platform.
- Build strong connections by working directly with customers and design partners, gathering insights and feedback to drive the development of new features and enhance the platform's capabilities.
- Strategize with the product team to shape the future roadmap. Stay ahead of the curve by keeping up-to-date with the latest trends in AI.
Must have:
- 5+ years of experience deploying and maintaining production applications in the cloud with extensive knowledge of containers, virtual machines, caches, task queues, networking, and operating systems.
- Bonus: Built and operated production AI systems and are familiar with AI inference techniques.
- Bonus: Experience with machine learning algorithms, platforms, and frameworks like PyTorch and Tensorflow.
- A strong product instinct focused on delivering incredible user experiences to customers coupled with the ability to think strategically about the future to address market opportunities and customer needs.
- A winning mindset, you excel in fast-moving environments and are adept at starting and growing projects. You have a knack for tackling new challenges, finding innovative solutions, being unafraid of setbacks, and working collaboratively to achieve results.
Compensation:
The base salary ranges between $175,000–$225,000 USD, plus a generous equity package and benefits. Final comp will be based on experience and skills.
If you’re excited to build the core infrastructure powering the next billion AI-powered apps, let’s talk.
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Req ID: 49