Piramidal, a Y Combinator W24 company, is hiring a backend engineer to help build and scale the infrastructure behind its real-time neural monitoring platform. The role focuses on high-throughput streaming, real-time analytics, and hospital-grade reliability. This is a full-time position based in the company's New York office, five days a week, with required travel to client sites. Candidates must have US work authorization.
In the role, you will build and run Python and Go services that consume, transform, and serve real-time neurological data streams. You will design and maintain data models, ingestion pipelines, and retention policies for high-frequency time series data. You will also build and extend the APIs behind clinical workflows, work with ML engineers to move models from research into production inference, and make the platform observable and dependable through metrics, alerting, and incident follow-up. The work must meet the standards of a regulated medical device, including cybersecurity, traceability, and change control.
Required experience includes five or more years building and operating backend systems in production, along with event-driven or stream-processing experience covering partitioning, checkpointing, backpressure, and at-least-once delivery. Strong Python skills, including concurrency and testing, are essential, as is proficiency with containers and orchestration, preferably Kubernetes, and solid relational database skills. Go, Azure services, Apache Arrow or Parquet, and healthcare experience are nice to have.
Piramidal is building a first-of-its-kind foundation model for electrophysiological brain data. Its first product brings a state-of-the-art model into real-time clinical workflows to help clinicians detect and respond to seizures faster. The base salary range is $250,000 – $300,000, depending on experience, plus a meaningful equity plan, comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, and a daily lunch budget.
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