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Attention Engineering

MTS

Palo Alto, California, United States

Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Other
Pay
$180K a year
Posted
15 months ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $180K a year, is 8% below the median of $195K for other jobs in Palo Alto (middle half $125K – $250K, 39 jobs that state pay).

64 other jobs open in Palo Alto: 0% remote, 17 posted in the last 30 days.

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About the role

About Attention Engineering

The gap between how top engineers around the world use AI systems today - elaborate coding agent configs, massive context files, and engineered workflows - and how everyone else uses it is only growing.

We think the company that bridges the gap to create a sovereign product that understands and multiplies the rest of the worlds output will be one of the most important companies built in this decade.

The Team

We’re a small team of builders/researchers. We’ve worked at companies like Citadel, Jane Street, and Optiver, published papers at the top AI conferences, won IOI gold medals, and more.

If your background doesn’t fit cleanly into one of the buckets above, that’s fine. We care about ownership, experience building, and slope, rather than your pedigree.

The Role

We are hiring one title across multiple strengths. You will own large, critical parts of the system. We hire across a few different spikes, but the bar is exceptional individuals. You’re spike may be:

  • AI Runtime & Agent Orchestration: context management, tool use, VLMs, model selection, output quality in production.
  • Search, Retrieval, Vector Systems & Data Infrastructure: Embedding pipelines, ranking and retrieval architecture, and data infrastructure underneath.
  • Evals, Applied ML & Model Quality.
  • Backend Systems & Workflow Architecture: PostgreSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub, FastAPI
  • Infrastructure, Cloud Platform & Reliability: GCP, Terraform, Docker, Cloud Run.

You will work directly on the product, platform, and infrastructure with no layers between you and the decisions that matter.

Source

Posted by Attention Engineering on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 12:32 UTC; the original is the reference.

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