Founding Software Engineer at well-funded industrial AI startup

About the role

As a founding engineer, you will design and implement the core AI systems that automate complex hardware engineering workflows. You will develop novel agents that interpret and manipulate design data, integrating them into production environments for enterprise customers. This high-impact role offers the chance to build foundational infrastructure for world-changing industries from the ground up.

Location: San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable

• Rare opportunity to join a top-tier VC-backed startup as one of the first technical hires with significant ownership.
• Work at the cutting edge of AI, building agents that solve physical-world engineering challenges rather than just digital tasks.
• Direct influence over the engineering culture, technical architecture, and long-term product roadmap of the company.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement intelligent context management and novel indexing approaches for hardware engineering agents.
• Build and post-train ML models capable of reasoning over complex geometric and engineering design data.
• Collaborate directly with enterprise customers to ensure AI-powered workflows are reliable and trusted in production.

Requirements

• Holds a degree in Computer Science or Machine Learning with strong proficiency in LLM architectures and agent research.
• Proven track record of building and shipping production-grade ML systems using PyTorch or Hugging Face.
• Exceptional programming skills with practical experience in search, information retrieval, or geometric data processing.

This is a well-funded industrial AI startup.