Forward Engineer

About the Role

As a Forward Engineer at Metis, you’ll be part of a tight-knit, product-driven team leveraging our training platform to deliver outcomes for customers. You’ll work across the stack, from low-level systems to user-facing features, to deliver resilient, high-performance products that power mission-critical AI workflows. You’ll own projects end-to-end, collaborate deeply with platform, research, and customers to make pragmatic technical decisions that tie directly to customer outcomes.

We move fast, but we hold a very high bar for correctness, maintainability, and simplicity. You’ll be expected to write production-grade code, reason holistically about systems, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in applied AI engineering.

What You'll Do

• Translate research prototypes into production systems that enterprises and labs can reliably adopt
• Collaborate with platform, product and research teams to ship features under real customer constraints
• Write clean, testable code in modern languages while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development
• Debug complex systems, identify bottlenecks, and drive performance, security, and reliability improvements

Requirements

• Strong fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
• Experience with backend systems, distributed computing, or high-volume services
• Strong communication abilities with a high bar for customer interaction
• Ability to turn ambiguous product asks into simple, pragmatic solutions
• Familiarity with system design, software engineering best practices, and debugging in production environments
• Comfortable working across the stack — from APIs and orchestration to user-facing surfaces

Compensation & Benefits

Base: $150,000–$450,000

Significant Equity

Full medical, dental, and vision

Wellness & L&D stipend

• Equinox membership
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided (Unlimited Doordash)
• $25,000 housing stipend

About Metis

Metis helps enterprises and labs build the most reliable AI agents by leveraging post-training. Our platform enables the creation, improvement, and deployment of the most capable frontier agents designed for rigorous, real-world workflows.

Momentum

0 → six-figure monthly revenue in the last six weeks

Working with several Fortune 500 enterprises & frontier AI labs

Growing 150%+ MoM

Backed by

Y Combinator, CRV, and executives from OpenAI, Google, Mercor, NVIDIA, and others.