Backend/AI Engineer

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$200k–$300k

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Reducto Backend/AI Engineer at Reducto works on core API powering document parsing, integrating LLMs, optimizing pipelines, and building infrastructure for document understanding at scale. The role requires hands-on development from ideation to shipping.

Responsibilities

As a Backend/AI Engineer, you'll work on our core API that powers document parsing for hundreds of companies. You'll integrate cutting-edge LLMs, optimize document processing pipelines, and build the infrastructure that makes state-of-the-art document understanding accessible at scale.
We would love to meet you if you:
Philosophy: You are your own worst critic. You have a high bar for quality and don't rest until the job is done right—no settling for 90%. We want someone who ships fast, with high agency, and who doesn't just voice problems but actively jumps in to fix them.
Experience: You have 2+ years of experience building real world applications and integrating LLMs into production systems
Language: You're exceptional at Python
Tools: Build your own tools as needed—like a quick Streamlit app to test hypotheses or create a dataset.
Approach: A quantitative approach to building products. Ability to debug, experiment, and iterate fast. You should be comfortable getting hands-on with the full development lifecycle, from ideation to shipping to users.
The core work will include:
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

Qualification

Exceptional Python skillsHave experience with prompt engineeringAre ambitious and driven

Required

2+ years of experience building real world applications
Experience integrating LLMs into production systems
Exceptional Python skills

Preferred

Have prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages
Have experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or building AI agents
Are ambitious and driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people
Keep up with the latest developments in ML/AI
This is an in person role at our office in SF. We're an early stage company which means that the role requires working hard and moving quickly. Please only apply if that excites you.
Nearly 80% of enterprise data is in unstructured formats like PDFs
PDFs are the status quo for enterprise knowledge in nearly every industry. Insurance claims, financial statements, invoices, and health records are all stored in a structure that’s simply impractical for use in digital workflows. This isn’t an inconvenience—it’s a critical bottleneck that leads to dozens of wasted hours every week.
Traditional approaches fail at reliably extracting information in complex PDFs

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Company

Reducto

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