AI Backend Engineer (Palo Alto, CA)
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AI Backend Engineer (Palo Alto, CA)

Harmony is an open and fast blockchain. We are building a Web3 platform for generative AI and machine learning. Developers use onchain tokens for micro-payments, smart contracts for market pricing, and zero-knowledge proofs for data privacy.

🚀 Building a (Rocket)Ship

We are a Day-1 startup. Blockchains are becoming the foundation of the global economy, yet their adoption is at only 1%. That means that you as a pioneer and developer are shaping the future with 10X impact. Harmony is a community-driven project, a network with hundreds of applications, and a team wearing crazy ambitions on their sleeves. Because the invincible summer awaits!

For engineers, we value your deep understanding of how bytes work. You are a tool maker, a system hacker, and a math nerd all in ONE. Your typical day involves prototyping a top-conference research paper, debugging and profiling in hexdecimal, or writing updates to coordinate asynchronously with tens of engineers in the open. Building a blockchain is like jumping off the cliff while assembling the plane engine on the fly – but, if you can thrive in chaos, why NOT?

For creatives, we approve your obsession with user experience. You are a product designer, a brand manager, and an industry analyst all in ONE. Your typical day involves studying what delights and what hurts through hard metrics, writing long-form narratives on the why's and the do's, or scrumming tasks for a product launch to iterate with millions of users. Building a community is like sharing your blue heart while keeping the culture alive for decades – but, if this is your dream of 50 years, start NOW?

💙 See Harmony’s Culture and Values on "Empathy, Passion & Excellence".

Responsibilities

  • Deploy and optimize Stable Diffusion models from Civit AI or Hugging Face.
  • Develop voice + text chatbots as Telegram web clients with crypto payments.
  • Research on generative transformers for news curation, abstractive summarization.

Requirements

  • Specialized in cloud operations, system optimizations, or model compilers.
  • No formal degree required, 0 to 3 years of working experience.
  • 5 days full-time in office (Palo Alto, CA) and off-hour emergency.
  • Exceptional communication and people skills.

🧠 See Founder Stephen Tse’s newsletter on “AI ∩ Crypto”.