Principal Full-stack Engineer

About Ambient: Ambient is an innovative cryptocurrency network built on a Proof of Work (PoW) model that leverages machine intelligence. We incentivize nodes to perform inference, fine-tuning, and pre-training on a single large language model (LLM) with over 600 billion parameters. Ambient replaces Bitcoin by providing a decentralized and open-source alternative where the economy is denominated in machine intelligence.\n\nResponsibilities:\n- Lead the design and development of full-stack applications that power Ambient's infrastructure\n- Build and maintain APIs, frontends, and backend services that enable the network's functionality\n- Quickly build prototypes from scratch and then ship them to production\n- Collaborate with product and design teams to deliver exceptional user experiences\n- Mentor other engineers and drive alignment across teams\n- Ensure systems are performant, secure, and scalable\n\nRequirements:\n- Proven experience leading complex engineering efforts focused on full-stack development\n- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to align stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams\n- A track record of contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and making thoughtful system-level tradeoffs\n- At least 8+ years of coding experience in languages like Go, Java, or similar, with strong expertise in writing concurrent and distributed code\n- Extensive experience designing and building distributed systems, leveraging concurrency primitives, and optimizing network performance\n- Deep expertise in full-stack development, with familiarity across front-end and back-end technologies\n- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to tackle complex, ambiguous problems\n\nCompensation: The estimated pay range for this role is $170,000 - $230,000. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Ambient's equity plan.