At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and maintain the SpaceXAI API for global developers, ensuring high performance and reliability.
- Company: Join a pioneering AI company focused on understanding the universe and driving innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity, comprehensive healthcare, and exciting perks.
- Other info: Flat organisational structure with opportunities for leadership and growth.
- Why this job: Be part of a mission-driven team that values curiosity and engineering excellence.
- Qualifications: Expertise in Rust or C++, with experience in scalable systems and databases.
The predicted salary is between 107000 - 262000 £ per year.
Space XAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.
Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence.
This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity.
We operate with a flat organizational structure.
All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission.
Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence.
Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important.
All employees are expected to have strong communication skills.
They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE: As an ideal candidate you have a good understanding of how highly scalable and reliable production infrastructure is built.
Most of our backend infrastructure is written in Rust.
So familiarity with a compiled language such as C++, Rust, or Go is highly beneficial.
RESPONSIBILITIES: Build the Space XAI API that serves our models to developers worldwide Own the end-to-end system responsible for high-throughput inference, handling billions of tokens per minute with low latency and high availability, including model serving infrastructure, request routing, SDK development, rate limiting, observability, and efficient scaling BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Expert knowledge of either Rust or C++Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems Knowledge of service observability and reliability best practices Experience in operating commonly used databases such as Postgre SQL, Clickhouse, and Mongo DBPREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: Experience with LLM inference engines and serving frameworks (e. g., SGLang, Tensor RT, v LLM)Experience designing or building with agent SDKs and agent orchestration frameworks Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized applications Expert knowledge of g RPC (unary, response streaming, bi-directional streaming, REST mapping)COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:107,000 - 262,000 GBPBase salary is just one part of our total rewards package at Space XAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage, cash plan, income protection, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
Space XAI is an equal opportunity employer.
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