Software Engineer

About the Company

Magic’s mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems. We believe the most promising path to safe AGI lies in automating research and code generation to improve models and solve alignment more reliably than humans can alone.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale large distributed data pipelines for pre-training
• Design filtering, mixture, and dataset versioning systems
• Develop post-training datasets, evaluation frameworks, and reward pipelines
• Run ablations that translate capability goals into measurable improvements
• Build end-to-end product surfaces that integrate deeply with the model
• Design APIs, backend services, and frontend workflows for AI-first experiences
• Improve reliability, observability, and performance of production systems

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• High ownership and comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces
• Experience building production systems at scale
• Ability to reason clearly about trade-offs between quality, performance, and cost
• Strong technical judgment and bias toward shipping
• Track record of turning complex technical problems into working systems

Benefits

• Annual salary range: $200K - $550K
• Significant equity component
• 401(k) plan with 6% salary matching
• Generous health, dental and vision insurance
• Unlimited paid time off
• Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend available