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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. REQUIREMENTS: Product Positioning & Technical Narrative Own the positioning and messaging for Baseten’s dedicated inference and platform capabilities, including autoscaling, routing, failover, release safety, observability, and cost/performance capabilities. Translate infrastructure-heavy product work into buyer narratives for ML engineering, platform engineering, security, compliance, procurement, and executive audiences. Partner with Product and Engineering to understand the technical architecture, customer value, roadmap tradeoffs, and proof points behind each capability. Define when a capability should be positioned as a platform differentiator, a dedicated inference requirement, a reliability story, a compliance story, or sales enablement. Build messaging that is technically credible without being overly implementation-focused or generic. Launch Strategy & GTM Execution Build and execute launch plans for major dedicated inference and serving platform capabilities, from early internal enablement through external announcement. Decide what deserves a full launch versus what should ship through docs, sales enablement, customer-specific materials, or targeted enterprise outreach. Create launch assets including messaging briefs, landing pages, blog posts, sales decks, one-pagers, FAQs, demo storylines, competitive talk tracks, and customer-facing proof points. Sequence launches and supporting assets based on custo

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📍 Austin, Texas, United States· Full-time
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1743 - This position is in Austin, Texas. Position Summary We are seeking an experienced Board-Level Hardware Validation Engineer to define and execute the validation and verification of complex electronic systems throughout the product lifecycle. This role is responsible for defining validation strategies, developing test plans, executing hands-on testing, analyzing failures, and working directly with ODM partners to ensure products meet performance, reliability, quality, and compliance requirements before mass production. The ideal candidate combines strong electrical engineering fundamentals with practical lab expertise and is comfortable personally performing validation activities while coordinating with cross-functional teams and manufacturing partners. Key Responsibilities Validation Strategy & Planning Define comprehensive board-level and inter-board validation plans based on product requirements, design specifications, and customer use cases. Develop validation methodologies covering functional, electrical, thermal, power, signal integrity, reliability, and stress testing. Establish test coverage, acceptance criteria, qualification requirements, and release gates. Review hardware architecture, schematics, component specifications, and interface topologies to identify validation risks early in the design cycle. Define incremental validation and regression coverage for component substitutions, design changes, and firmware updates. Hands-On Validation Execution Develop, automate, and execute validation tests on prototype and production-intent hardware. Perform board bring-up, functional verification, electrical characterization, and system-level integration testing. Validate communication interfaces, control signals, and timing requirements. Verify power sequencing, reset behavior, leakage current, and recovery across operating states. Execute temperature and voltage corner testing against approved operating limits. Use oscilloscopes, logic an

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE We're hiring a Product Data Scientist to establish how product decisions at Baseten are made with data. You'll work directly with Product and Engineering, alongside GTM to determine measurement, strategy, experimentation and implementation. This is a foundational, hands-on role. You'll define what success looks like across a technical, usage-based platform and turn ambiguous questions into analyses, forecasts, and experiments that shape product strategy. You'll work from clickstream and product events through inference telemetry and observability data, helping Baseten make faster decisions about reliability, performance, adoption and developer experience. RESPONSIBILITIES Partner directly with Product and Engineering: frame the questions that matter, define success criteria, and turn analysis into roadmap, launch, and prioritization decisions. Define how product success is measured: establish metrics across activation, adoption, retention, expansion, reliability and user experience. Support experimentation and launches: design measurement plans, analyze A/B experiments and controlled rollouts, and translate results into product decisions. Diagnose reliability and scaling behavior: join customer signals with request, replica, deployment, and cluster telemetry to find patterns in release bottlenecks, unhealthy replicas, and models without traffic. Define the enterprise customer journey and measure feature adoption

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE We’re hiring a Data Scientist to help build and scale our internal analytics capabilities. This is a foundational role where you’ll create dashboards, data models and insights to power business and product teams alike. You’ll collect requirements, define key metrics, and deliver insights directly to stakeholders. You'll define what success looks like across a technical, usage-based platform and turn ambiguous questions into analyses, forecasts, and experiments that shape Baseten’s product and strategy. RESPONSIBILITIES Build and maintain production-grade dbt models and dashboards across multiple functions with a focus on accuracy, simplicity and user experience. Define and instrument core metrics around ROI, product adoption, customer lifecycle, capacity, availability, revenue and costs. Ingest and transform raw data using tools like dbt, Airbyte, and BigQuery. Partner with Engineering, Finance, Marketing, and Sales teams to understand goals and translate them into data solutions REQUIREMENTS 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data analysis, analytics, data science or a related role Advanced SQL and dbt skills, with a record of building models, tests, semantic layers and lineage in a cloud data warehouse. Prior experience supporting complex cross-functional projects across GTM, Finance and Engineering across various stages of the customer journey. Experience building dashboards and self-serve analy

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Research Program Management team partners with researchers and engineers to advance the development of increasingly capable, safe, and beneficial AI systems. We work alongside teams developing our core models, helping turn ambitious research goals into coordinated execution across model training, alignment and safety, and research infrastructure. The team also regularly collaborates with our closest cross-functional partners such as Security, Applied product and engineering, Strategy, and Scaling. About the Role As a Research Program Manager, you will embed with research teams and help drive some of the most technically complex and consequential work behind OpenAI’s model development. Depending on your focus, your work may span training, reasoning, evaluations, compute, research infrastructure, safety, model launch readiness, and governance. You will translate evolving research priorities into actionable programs, help teams navigate technical and operational tradeoffs, and keep important work moving as new issues emerge. This is a hands-on technical role: you will engage directly with research workflows, experimental results, technical systems, and engineering constraints; not simply coordinate from the sidelines. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 5+ years of experience in research program management, technical program management, or related roles in fast-moving environments. Can engage substantively with researchers and engineers on topics such as model training, experimental design, model safety, evaluation methods, data workflows, compute infrastructure, or distributed systems. Are comfortable working directly with technical tools, research data, experimental results, or operational workflows to understand problems and develop practical solutions. Have a strong track record of movi

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Industrial Compute team is building and productizing infrastructure capabilities that help organizations deploy and operate advanced AI systems at scale. The team works across AI hardware, systems engineering, physical infrastructure, and customer delivery to turn emerging technologies into reliable, repeatable infrastructure solutions. Our work sits at the intersection of technical strategy, product development, engineering, and deployment. We partner closely with customers and internal engineering teams to solve complex infrastructure challenges spanning compute, power, cooling, controls, and facility efficiency. About the Role We are seeking a senior, hands-on Data Center Infrastructure Architect to develop and optimize the physical infrastructure required for large-scale AI deployments. This is a broad technical role spanning data center architecture, electrical and mechanical systems, high-density compute, controls, telemetry, and digital modeling. You will use simulation, operational data, and digital-twin approaches to evaluate infrastructure designs, identify system-level constraints, and improve efficiency, reliability, cost, and speed of deployment. The ideal candidate can move fluidly between first-principles analysis, facility and equipment design, computational modeling, engineering review, and real-world implementation. You should be comfortable working across disciplines rather than operating solely within electrical, mechanical, or software boundaries. Key Responsibilities Define system-level architectures for high-density AI data centers across power, cooling, IT equipment, controls, and facility infrastructure. Develop digital twins and other computational models that represent the behavior of data center systems under changing workloads, environmental conditions, equipment configurations, and failure scenarios. Use design and operational data to identify constraints, improve PUE and related efficiency metrics, and optimize

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The Integrated Marketing team sits at the center of product, brand, creative, media, research, and GTM work. We partner closely with PMM, Product, Developer Relations, Design, Comms, and agency teams to shape launches and campaigns that are clear, distinctive, and grounded in real audience insight. This is a growing function, so the team needs people who can both raise the quality of the work and build the operating model around it: bringing strong judgment, high agency, and trusted partnership to complex, visible moments. About the Role Developers and founders are building some of the most interesting things happening in AI. They’re starting companies, creating new products, and changing how people work. We’re looking for an integrated marketing manager who understands this audience and can shape how OpenAI shows up for developers, founders, startups, and engineering teams. That includes supporting campaigns around new products, creating meaningful developer experiences, and finding compelling ways to highlight the people and companies building with our technology. You’ll partner across Product, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, Research, Brand, and Creative, along with external agencies and partners, to develop strategies and bring strong ideas to market. The right person understands technology, has good creative judgment, and knows how to turn audience insight into work that feels useful, credible, and worth paying attention to. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, with three days a week in the office. In this role, you will: Support marketing strategies for developers, founders, startups, and engineering teams building with OpenAI, based on how technical audiences discover tools, evaluate them, and decide what to use. Partner with creative, media, and production agencies to develop briefs, evaluate concepts, improve the work, and bring campaigns to market. Establish agency relationships, campaign budgets, media planning, and paid me

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our CSP Engagements team as the technical focal point for GPU firmware and GPU system software, working directly with engineering teams of key CSP / hyperscale customers to ensure they can reliably manage, update, and operate NVIDIA GPU firmware at fleet scale. You will drive work streams with engineering teams of key CSPs/hyperscale customers to build shared understanding of GPU firmware and system software integration, incorporate their feedback into NVIDIA's feature roadmap and delivery plan, and ensure customer-side automation and recovery procedures are ready before each firmware release. Your cross-CSP visibility enables you to identify patterns in GPU firmware operational challenges that drive systemic improvements no single customer engagement could surface alone. What you'll be doing: Drive GPU firmware & siftware work streams with CSP engineering teams — ensuring they understand GPU firmware architecture (VBIOS, InfoROM, microcontroller firmware), update sequencing, recovery procedures, and GPU power management Gather and synthesize CSP feedback on GPU firmware/software — covering manageability, observability, security requirements (e.g., multi-tenancy isolation, secure boot, attestation), and performance — and champion those priorities into NVIDIA's GPU firmware/software feature roadmap and delivery plan Drive GPU firmware update orchestration for large-scale deployments — multi-GPU update sequencing, rollback strategy, failure handling, and validation across hundreds of GPUs per rack Serve as the technical focal point between NVIDIA and CSP firmware/software engineering — ensuring GPU behaviors (error recovery flows, thermal protection, power state transitions) are well-documented and accessible for customer integration Identify cross-CSP GPU SW/FW issue patterns — common update failu

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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As a Senior Backend Engineer on Coder's Enterprise Experience team, you'll build the systems that help large organizations run Coder in production with confidence. You'll improve how Coder scales, how it's upgraded, and how reliably it performs in regulated, air-gapped, and enterprise environments. You'll work on a genuinely cross-functional team of backend, platform, and QA engineers who own the end-to-end experience for Coder operators. From designing new features to evolving Coder's architecture, you'll partner across engineering and product to solve complex problems and ship software that operators trust. What you'll do here Design and build new features end to end, from technical design through production rollout. Design and implement backend architecture changes that support Coder's long-term scalability goals. Investigate and resolve scalability bottlenecks under production-like load, from database access patterns to concurrency handling in coderd. Improve database migration safety and upgrade reliability through schema compatibility, background migrations, and safe rollback strategies. Own the backend side of issues surfaced by Coder operators and administrators. Document the design, implementation, and operational tradeoffs of the systems you build. Participate in code reviews, RFC-style design discussions, and on-call rotations for the services you own. What we're looking for 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant production experience with Go. Deep understanding of Go's concurrency model, including goroutines, channels, the sync package, and debugging race conditions under real-world load. Experience designing and operating relational databases in production, including schema design, migrations, and transactions. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Exceptional debugging and troubleshooting skills, with the persistence to drive complex problems to resolution. A self-motivated, analytical engineer who enj

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE Baseten is seeking talented and experienced Software Engineers to join our Platform team within the Infrastructure organization. As a senior member of Baseten's Platform Team, you will own the systems that let every engineer at Baseten prove their code works before it reaches production. Our product runs mission-critical AI inference for customers who measure downtime in dollars per second, which means our internal bar for correctness, performance, and failure tolerance has to be exceptional. Your focus is the full testing stack: fast and reliable unit test tooling, integration harnesses that spin up realistic environments on demand, load and performance testing for GPU-backed inference workloads, and resilience testing that deliberately breaks things so our customers never have to find out what happens when a node dies mid-request. This is a builder role with org-wide leverage. You won't be writing tests for other teams — you'll be building the frameworks, harnesses, and feedback loops that make writing good tests the path of least resistance, and you'll set the standards for what "well-tested" means at Baseten. RESPONSIBILITIES Own Baseten's testing strategy end to end — define the standards, the tiers, and the tooling that engineering teams build against. Build and maintain unit, integration, load and performance testing frameworks Design end to end test infrastructure that provisions realistic dependencies

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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From $10K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role As the Product Manager for Tax, you will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Ramp’s next generation of AI-powered tax products. You will build solutions to automate tax calculation, validation, and filing for our existing suite of products (card, bill pay, banking, etc), for both domestic and international use cases. You’ll also be accountable for **expanding** Stack - our agentic accounting product - into the tax automation domain, to automate the work of CPAs. You’ll partner closely with engineering, design, data, and cross-functional stakeholders (Finance, Legal, Security, CX, Sales) to build intelligent experiences that help customers save money, reduce risk, and eliminate manual work. This role blends AI-native product development (LLM-powered workflows, evaluation systems, human-in-the-loop design) and deep domain expertise in domestic/international tax and CPA’s workflows. You will define and execute a strategy that will unlock new markets for Ramp and help us save our customers even more time and money. Please note that

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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From $10K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. Ramp is building an AI-native platform that changes how Go-to-Market and Product Growth teams create, launch, and improve customer-facing experiences. We are looking for a product-minded backend engineer to help build the infrastructure and services that power modern growth and marketing at Ramp. The next chapter for this team is to build marketing-led products : intelligent tools that turn strategy into execution, automate complex workflows, and help teams operate across channels with dramatically more leverage. The team will build across creative production, lifecycle marketing, paid media, account-based marketing, experimentation, incentives, and cross-channel orchestration. Examples include AI-powered systems that produce on-brand campaign assets, automate complex marketing workflows, coordinate audiences and execution, and deliver personalized experiences across email, sales outreach, external channels, and Ramp’s product. A core part of this mandate is Ramp’s incentives platform. We are building shared infrastructure to safely target, authoriz

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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From $10K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to help drive the future of credit applied science at Ramp. In this role, you will design, build, and optimize the models that power our credit risk systems, helping us make faster, smarter, and more scalable risk decisions for our customers. You’ll work at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, economics, and product strategy. This role requires strong technical depth as well as close collaboration with business, product, data, and engineering partners. You will help identify high-impact opportunities, translate ambiguous business problems into rigorous modeling work, and ship models that operate reliably in production. Applied scientists at Ramp focus on solving quantitative problems across credit, fraud, growth, and our core product by applying the right mix of machine learning, causal inference, structural modeling, and optimization. What You'll Do Design, build, and optimize machine learning models that support credit risk decisioning and portfolio management at Ramp Own the

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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From $120K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role As an Account Executive | Mid-Market at Ramp, you are a proven hunter & sales closer with track record of quota attainment and overachievement. We believe strongly in our value proposition of aligning incentives with our customers and you will bring it to life through the sales process with C-Level executives and key decision makers. As an early member of the team, you will also have the opportunity to help build the sales engine and define the sales strategy that fuels the growth of the company! What You’ll Do Drive revenue for Ramp, owning the entire sales cycle through close Develop strategies for closing opportunities within your assigned territory Leverage sales methodologies to uncover customer needs and pain points Articulate Ramp’s value proposition by using the appropriate sales qualification standards Own sales activity and monthly revenue forecasting in Salesforce Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to incorporate customer feedback What You'll Need Minimum 4 years of quota-carrying direct SaaS sales

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📍 New York, NY, United States· Full-time
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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role We are hiring a Software Engineer to build systems across Fraud, UIM (User & Identity Management), and Identity. This role sits at the intersection of security, risk decisioning, and product experience. You will help build detection and enforcement capabilities for fraud and account takeover, as well as the identity primitives that power authentication, authorization, and safe account access. This work is deeply cross-functional. You will partner closely with Fraud Ops, Risk Strategy, Security, Product, and Data to ship improvements that are measurable in loss reduction, attack containment, and user experience. What You’ll Do Build and evolve backend services that detect and prevent fraud across multiple surfaces, including account access and money movement. Develop enforcement and response tooling that enables fast, safe actions such as identity locks, business locks, payment freezes, and other containment levers. Improve protections against account takeover (ATO), including risk-based step-ups, monitoring, and targeted friction

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