Metis

Infrastructure to build reliable agents

Platform Engineer

$150K - $850K0.10% - 2.50%San Francisco, California
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
Will sponsor
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Aryan Shah
Aryan Shah
Founder

About the role

About the Role

As a Platform Engineer at Metis, you’ll join a small, product-driven engineering team building modern infrastructure that powers critical workflows for our own training platform. You’ll own projects end-to-end, designing, building, and shipping production systems that directly impact customers. You’ll write production-grade code, reason about systems holistically, and make decisions that tie directly to business outcomes. You will be moving fast while upholding a high bar for code quality, scalability, and simplicity.

What You’ll Do

  • Design and build scalable infrastructure for reinforcement learning frameworks
  • Own projects and deliver to foundational labs + large enterprises by solving real-word customer problems under real-world constraints 
  • Write code and leverage AI tools effectively to get the highest quality of work done in the fastest time 

Requirements

  • Strong coding fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.).
  • Ability to break down ambiguity and ship simple solutions to complex problems.
  • Familiarity with system-design, general coding practices in terminal, and high level thinking

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base: $150,000–$850,000
  • 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.

About Metis

Metis helps enterprises build reliable production agents and models by leveraging our reinforcement learning platform

Metis
Founded:2025
Batch:S25
Team Size:7
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Aryan Shah
Aryan Shah
Founder
Aayush Sheth
Aayush Sheth
Founder
Marcus Yearwood
Marcus Yearwood
Founder