Member of Technical Staff
Company websitequadrillion.ai (Quadrillion Labs, opens in new tab)
Base salary $175K to $350K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York City, NY
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- LocationNew York City, NY
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (16 min ago) · observed since
About this job
As a Member of Technical Staff at Quadrillion Labs, you'll build the systems that power Qualia, our research agent. This is a mix of exciting systems work — orchestrating agent loops, building the sandboxed environments where agents run experiments against real data, designing the APIs and tooling researchers actually touch, and scaling the infrastructure that keeps all of it fast and reliable as we grow — and the product work of turning a capable agent into something that subject matter experts depend on every day. You'll work closely with both research and product teams to ensure that our agents are reliable, fast, and operate well in a variety of environments.
What you'll do
Build effective systems for agent orchestration. You'll engineer the core system that drives Qualia, improving its ability to reason over long horizons, run parallel experiments, and manage its knowledge.
Scale environments for agent experiments and training. Help us build the sandboxed compute where agents run complex, high-performance experiments, and scale it to tens of thousands of concurrent deployments.
Expand what agents can do and where they run. Build and deploy the tools and integrations that connect Qualia to customers' data sources and external systems.
Required qualifications
Strong full-stack or backend engineering experience, especially with Python
Comfort working in unfamiliar codebases
Ability to move quickly in a zero-to-one environment
About this role
We work in-person 5 days a week out of our office in Midtown Manhattan. We cover generous benefits for employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, lunch and dinner covered, and other varied stipends.
We pride ourselves on a company culture that values a diversity of thoughts and opinions.
About Quadrillion
Quadrillion Labs builds Qualia, an agentic research intelligence platform that does real computational research — running experiments, analyzing data, and surfacing insight for the people who do this work at the highest level.
We're a team out of Stanford NLP, HRT, Citadel, Jane Street, Google Research, and Harvard Med, building for an audience that looks a lot like us. We've raised ~$18M from Conviction, Audacious, Bloomberg Beta, ex/ante, and angels including Wes McKinney, the creator of pandas.
We think this is the Industrial Revolution moment for research, and we're building the team to define what comes next.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Quadrillion Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring and employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We are committed to building a team where talented people can do their best work.
If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, let us know at [email protected].
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($175,000) is above 48% of the 1,203 Software Engineering roles in New York listed on this site; 35 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $175,000; the middle half runs from $145,000 to $200,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
This listingMember of Technical Staff$175K to $350K
Member of Technical Staff, Forward-Deployed Engineering$175K to $350K
Member of Technical Staff, Frontend$175K to $350K
Member of Technical Staff, Research$275K to $500K
Research Intern$300K to $500K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff (this listing) | $175K - $350K |
| Member of Technical Staff, Forward-Deployed Engineering | $175K - $350K |
| Member of Technical Staff, Frontend | $175K - $350K |
| Member of Technical Staff, Research | $275K - $500K |
| Research Intern | $300K - $500K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-06-26
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: New York City
USD 175,000 – 350,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary
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