Senior Software Engineer

About Company:

Our client is a Palo Alto–based AI infrastructure and talent platform founded in 2018. It helps companies connect with remote software developers using AI-powered vetting and matching technology. Originally branded as the “Intelligent Talent Cloud,”enabled companies to “spin up their engineering dream team in the cloud” by sourcing and managing vetted global talent. In recent years, they have evolved to support AI infrastructure and AGI workflows, offering services in model training, fine-tuning, and deployment—powered by their internal AI platform, ALAN, and backed by a vast talent network. They reported $300 million in revenue and reached profitability. Their growth is driven by demand for annotated training data from AI labs, including major clients like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta.

Job Description:

Job Title: C++ Systems Software Engineer

Location: Pan India

Experience: 5+ yrs.

Employment Type: Contract to hire

Work Mode: Remote

Notice Period: - Immediate joiners

Roles & Responsibilities:

Role Overview:

We are seeking highly skilled C/C++ engineers to work with system-level libraries and tools such as OpenSSL, FFmpeg, glibc, libssh2, zlib, systemd, tcpdump and support infrastructure for AI-driven software engineering systems. In addition, you will play a key role in building the backend stack for model training and evaluation pipelines that support intelligent systems like the SWE Bench, where AI agents assist in real-world software maintenance and patching workflows

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and extend high-performance, secure system software in C/C++.
• Integrate and work with open-source projects such as OpenSSL, FFmpeg, glibc, systemd, tcpdump, libssh2, ImageMagick, and FreeRDP.
• Design tools and infrastructure to support model training and evaluation workflows.
• Build systems for suggesting code patches based on bug reports, issue descriptions, and vulnerability IDs.
• Automate assessment of PRs and patch diffs for correctness and completeness.
• Develop solution plans, set up reproducible environments, and evaluate test outcomes.
• Collaborate with AI engineers on integrations involving Rust bindings and Python-based orchestration tools.
• Analyze low-level system behavior using profiling, tracing, and debugging tools.
• Write clear, maintainable code and documentation for internal systems and external libraries.

Required Qualifications:

• Expert-level 4+ yrs of experience in C and/or C++ (C99+, C++11/14/17).
• Strong understanding of systems programming, memory management, and networking internals.
• Hands-on experience with Linux kernel, glibc, and multithreaded programming.
• Familiarity with libraries such as OpenSSL, zlib, FFmpeg, libssh2, and ImageMagick.
• Proficiency with debugging and diagnostics tools like gdb, valgrind, perf, and tcpdump.
• Experience integrating or extending open-source libraries and toolchains.
• Comfortable with build systems such as make, cmake, and autotools.
• Experience with Python, bash scripting, and Docker.
• Exposure to DevOps practices.

Good to have:

• Experience with model evaluation workflows involving static and dynamic code analysis.
• Understanding of AI-assisted code generation tools and feedback loops.
• Background in building tools for test orchestration, sandboxing, and runtime validation.