Member of Technical Staff, DX & Data Tooling Engineer

Magic’s mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems. We believe the most promising path to safe AGI lies in automating research and code generation to improve models and solve alignment more reliably than humans can alone. Our approach combines frontier-scale pre-training, domain-specific RL, ultra-long context, and inference-time compute to achieve this goal.

We're looking for someone to lead developer experience and data tooling for our pre-training data team. This person will build internal tools and infrastructure that make the team more productive—dashboards, CLIs, data exploration UIs, and the systems that tie them together.

The role is focused on DX and tooling—we're looking for someone who genuinely loves hacking on things, shipping fast, and tinkering.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals

• Genuine care for developer experience and best practices in code organization

• Good communicator who engages with teammates to understand their needs

• Bias toward action—sees something broken and fixes it

• Based in San Francisco (this role is in-office)

• Deep ML/AI expertise (this is a tooling role, not a modeling role)

• Prior experience specifically in "data engineering" pipelines—we care more about tooling instincts than domain experience

You'll have significant ownership over how a high-performing team works day-to-day. The scope is broad, the feedback loops are fast, and the work directly impacts how quickly we can move on core research and data efforts.

Magic strives to be the place where high-potential individuals can do their best work. We value quick learning and grit just as much as skill and experience.

• Integrity. Words and actions should be aligned

• Hands-on. At Magic, everyone is building

• Teamwork. We move as one team, not N individuals

• Focus. Safely deploy AGI. Everything else is noise

• Quality. Magic should feel like magic