At Groq. We believe in an AI economy powered by human agency. We envision a world where AI is accessible to all, a world that demands processing power that is better, faster, and more affordable than is available today. AI applications are currently constrained by the limitations of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), a technology originally developed for the gaming market and soon to become the weakest link in the AI economy.

Enter Groqs LPU™ AI Inference Technology. Specifically engineered for the demands of large language models (LLMs), the Language Processing Unit outpaces the GPU in speed, power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. The quickest way to understand the opportunity is to watch the following talk – groq.link/scspdemo.

Why join Groq? AI will change humanity forever, and we believe preservation of human agency and self determination is only possible if AI is made affordably and universally accessible. Groq’s LPUs will power AI from an early stage, and you will get to leave your fingerprint on civilization.

Staff Software Engineer Anti Abuse

Mission: Protect the integrity of our platform by building systems that make fraud and abuse exceedingly difficult, ensuring we can safely and economically offer free and developer tiers that can onboard millions of developers to GroqCloud.

Role Responsibilities & Outcomes:

Build Fraud and Abuse Mitigation for GroqCloud: Build appropriate measurement tools to characterize the amount of abuse on our platform. Assist in developing a roadmap and executing that roadmap to drive down abuse utilization.
Design and Develop Detection Mechanisms: Design, provision, and deploy monitoring solutions to track fraud and abuse patterns in real-time. Build systems to detect anomalies and flag potential abuse automatically. Leverage machine learning where appropriate.
Mitigation Tools and Automation: Build tools that cross-functional team members can use to stem detected abuse that has slipped through our automation.
Observability and Analytics: Develop and maintain dashboards and metrics to monitor fraud and abuse trends.
Balance Friction with User Experience: Recommend and build appropriate places for adding friction to account creation, etc. in order to stem abuse. Ensure we have appropriate measurements in place to understand the impact of these techniques
Communicate Effectively to Leadership: Build and maintain dashboards reviewed by leadership to provide visibility into fraud and abuse trends. Deliver actionable insights to drive informed decision-making regarding our free tier strategy and business tradeoffs.
Continuous Improvement of Fraud Prevention Strategies: Stay ahead of emerging fraud and abuse tactics. Regularly evaluate and enhance tools, techniques, and processes to ensure robust fraud prevention and detection.

Ideal candidates have:

6+ years of software development experience
3+ years building fraud and abuse detection systems, including real-time detection, anomaly detection, or abuse prevention systems.
3+ years writing software in Go
Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, PubSub/Kafka/Pulsar, and Stytch.
Experience with Bigquery, Honeycomb, Prometheus + Grafana
Experience with mitigating abuse across multiple regional deployments
Knowledge of machine learning techniques and their application to fraud and abuse detection is a plus.
Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment and buy-in for fraud mitigation strategies.
Bias to Action: Make decisions and ship code. You shouldn’t like meetings.
Self-Driven: See projects through end-to-end independently. You should have the desire to take a project from design all the way from idea to getting customer feedback
Attention to Detail. Focus on the nitpicks. Building with a high degree of craftsmanship and shipping great products is the way to have the most fun at work

Logistical Requirements. You must be:

Authorized to work in the United States
Available to work US Pacific hours
For in-person roles, available to work from the office at least Tuesday/Thursday

Attributes of a Groqster:

Humility - Egos are checked at the door
Collaborative & Team Savvy - We make up the smartest person in the room, together
Growth & Giver Mindset - Learn it all versus know it all, we share knowledge generously
Curious & Innovative - Take a creative approach to projects, problems, and design
Passion, Grit, & Boldness - no limit thinking, fueling informed risk taking

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Compensation: At Groq, a competitive base salary is part of our comprehensive compensation package, which includes equity and benefits. For this role, the base salary range is $205,530 to $Y, determined by your skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks.

Location: Groq is a geo-agnostic company, meaning you work where you are. Exceptional candidates will thrive in asynchronous partnerships and remote collaboration methods. Some roles may require being located near our primary sites, as indicated in the job description.

At Groq: Our goal is to hire and promote an exceptional workforce as diverse as the global populations we serve. Groq is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and belonging in all aspects of our organization. We value and celebrate diversity in thought, beliefs, talent, expression, and backgrounds. We know that our individual differences make us better.

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