Backend Engineer - AI Agent & Governance

Summary

Join Superblocks, a rapidly growing AI startup, and play a key role in designing and developing core systems for managing hundreds of thousands of AI applications. We are a fully in-person team located in NYC near Union Square. You will design and develop the core control plane for AI agents, develop multi-tenant systems, build and optimize AI agent performance, collaborate with customers on high-impact features, and partner with product to define the roadmap. We offer a competitive salary ($175,000–$225,000+ USD) and a generous equity package. This is an opportunity to be part of a generational AI company and work alongside exceptional engineers.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in full-stack or backend engineering with expertise in scalable system design and architecture
• Strong product sense focused on great user experiences and strategic thinking to meet market and customer needs
• You’re all-in and committed to building a generational AI company, far beyond a 9 to 5 job

Responsibilities

• Design and develop the core control plane for AI agents that supports custom RBAC, auth, AI guardrails, auditing and observability
• Develop systems that support multiple tenants and run across cloud and on-prem setups
• Build, deploy, and optimize AI agent performance, alignment and evals
• Work closely with customers to ship high-impact features driven by real-world use
• Partner with product to define the roadmap and bring new AI tooling to life

Preferred Qualifications

• Built and operated production AI systems and are familiar with AI inference techniques
• Optimized language runtimes and enable cross-language integration (e.g., Go, Python, C), including customizing or building WASM compilers and runtimes
• Experience with machine learning algorithms, platforms, and frameworks like PyTorch and Tensorflow

Benefits

The base salary ranges between $175,000–$225,000+ USD, plus a generous equity package