--- title: 'Platform Engineer at Metis, Inc.' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/platform-engineer-metis-inc-san-francisco-9hje3s9d2b7c' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Platform Engineer at Metis, Inc. - **Company:** Metis, Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Posted:** 2025-10-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/metisinc/jobs/4033263009 ## Job description ## 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 - Help scale and work on a core part of our Mantis Platform - Helping to optimize our training stack, work on expanding platform scalability and functionality - 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, Inc. ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Metis helps enterprises and frontier AI labs build the most reliable AI agents through a post-training platform that enables creation, improvement, and deployment of capable agents for rigorous real-world workflows. - **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Y Combinator, CRV, and executives from OpenAI, Google, Mercor, NVIDIA) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence – post-training and AI agent infrastructure - **Target customers**: B2B – Fortune 500 enterprises and frontier AI labs - **Mission or purpose**: To enable enterprises and labs to build the most reliable AI agents by leveraging post-training, bridging the gap between research prototypes and production-grade systems. ## Products & Services - **Mantis Platform**: A post-training platform for creating, improving, and deploying AI agents. It supports reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation, reward modeling, and human feedback integration, designed for mission-critical workflows. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Monthly revenue – six-figure range (reached from $0 in the last six weeks); growing 150%+ month-over-month - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator, CRV, and executives from OpenAI, Google, Mercor, NVIDIA - **Growth Signals**: Rapid revenue growth (0 to six-figure MRR in six weeks), 150%+ MoM growth, working with several Fortune 500 enterprises and frontier AI labs ## Competitive Advantages - **Specialized post-training focus** – Metis focuses exclusively on the post-training phase, a critical but underserved step in building reliable AI agents for production environments. - **Traction with top-tier customers** – Already serving Fortune 500 enterprises and leading AI labs, demonstrating trust and real-world applicability. - **Backing from elite investors and industry executives** – Y Combinator, CRV, and leaders from OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA provide credibility and deep AI expertise. - **Fast iteration and high engineering bar** – The team moves quickly while maintaining high standards for code quality, scalability, and simplicity. ## Strategic Focus - **Building an autonomous post-training agent** – Research and development of an autonomous system (leveraging the Mantis platform) that can improve AI agents through reinforcement learning, synthetic data, and real-world interactions. - **Scaling the platform** – Optimizing training stack, expanding platform scalability, and deploying models in production for enterprise customers. - **Pushing the state of the art** – Publishing research, conducting large-scale experiments, and refining methods in applied reinforcement and preference optimization. ## Why Work Here - **Compensation and benefits**: Base salary ranges from $150,000 to $1,000,000 depending on role, with significant equity. Full medical/dental/vision, wellness & L&D stipend, Equinox membership, unlimited Doordash for meals, and a $25,000 housing stipend. - **Culture**: Tight-knit, product-driven engineering team with a high bar for correctness and speed. Engineers own projects end-to-end and tie decisions directly to business outcomes. - **Work environment**: Office-based in San Francisco (hybrid/remote policy not specified, but roles are listed as San Francisco). Perks include breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided via unlimited Doordash. - **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on writing production-grade code, leveraging AI tools to accelerate development, and reasoning holistically about systems. Opportunities to work at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and scalable engineering. - **Growth trajectory**: Joining at an early stage with explosive revenue growth and high impact; roles span platform engineering, research engineering, forward engineering, and operations. ## Sources 1. [Greenhouse – Create Your Own Role](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/metisinc/jobs/4033363009) 2. [Greenhouse – Platform Engineer](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/metisinc/jobs/4033263009) 3. [Greenhouse – Research Engineer](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/metisinc/jobs/4034476009) 4. [Greenhouse – Forward Engineer](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/metisinc/jobs/4033357009) 5. 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