Paradigm

Software Engineer at Paradigm (San Francisco, CA)

Paradigm· San Francisco, CA· $180k–$280k·

Role details

Salary
$180k–$280k
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Equity
Yes

Job description

ABOUT PARADIGM

Our mission is to build a new type of workspace that lets every knowledge worker leverage the power of LLMs to scale immense amounts of research in a simple and intuitive UI. Paradigm lets users utilize its purpose-built infrastructure to orchestrate hundreds of thousands of agents to process millions of tokens per minute, compressing days of research into seconds.

Our team must confront and solve problems unique to parallelizing agents at this magnitude, not limited to: race conditions for 10^5 agents writing to a data model simultaneously, realtime transmission of agent outputs across all services to the client, optimizing for both write throughput and in-memory footprint for each agent.

What we’re looking for

  • Experience as a software engineer.
  • Consistent record an individual contributor to several medium to large projects.
  • Consistent record as primary individual contributor to at least one medium scale project.
  • Managed, designed and deployed distributed services in a production environment.
  • Seen as a resource by peers who can help debug and answer questions.

What can set you apart

  • We want your skills, not your title. We will prioritize those with a strong, demonstrated skillset over those who have learned to effectively climb the corporate ladder.
  • You know how to convey complex concepts clearly, can facilitate difficult conversations, and ensure everyone is on the same page.
  • Prior experience with: Go, Redis, PubSub, RPC, Postgres, S3, Temporal.

What we believe

Our best work is done in person. The team works together 5 days a week in our office in SF.

Why work at Paradigm

  • Culture: Small, talent-dense team (21 people) with builders from Google, MIT, Microsoft, Bridgewater, and Vercel. Emphasis on frontier AI systems and pushing boundaries of intelligent software.
  • Work policy: In-office in San Francisco, CA (remote work not mentioned; jobs listed as “In-Office” or “In Person”) Built In
  • Notable perks: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge agentic AI; direct impact on product direction; fast-paced startup environment with strong investor backing.
  • Current openings (as of mid-2026): Growth Generalist, Senior Software Engineer, Business Operations, Product Marketer.

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