Software Engineer, New Grad

About the role

We build real systems. We move petabytes of video through GPU clusters. We profile flamegraphs. We argue about io_uring and Parquet footers. We write Rust and Python. We talk to robotics researchers at the world's top labs about what's actually broken in their training loop, and then we go fix it.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to features across Eventual's stack: the open-source Daft query engine, the dataloading layer, the storage and indexing layer, or the visual understanding pipeline.
• Profile, benchmark, and optimize real systems on real workloads — petabytes of customer video on real GPU clusters.
• Write clean, maintainable Python and Rust.
• Read papers, prototype, ship to production.
• Pair with senior engineers who'll teach you systems work the right way — and trust you with real ownership early.
• Sit in on customer calls with researchers at top Physical AI labs.

What we look for

• Within ~1 year of graduating, or recently graduated.
• Strong programming fundamentals in Python, Rust, C++, or Go.
• Bonus points if you've reached for the lower-level languages because the problem demanded it.
• A real love for systems, distributed systems, databases, or data infrastructure — the kind of love that shows up in side projects, course projects you took further than required, or open-source contributions.
• Hungry. Curious. Willing to read papers, dig into a profiler, and stick with a hard problem until it gives.
• Excited to work in person, in a small team, in an SF office, 4 days a week.
• Nice to have:
• Built something obsessive in undergrad: a database, a query engine, a compiler, a custom decoder, a kernel module, a distributed system, an emulator, a graphics engine, a research project.
• Open-source contributions, especially to systems projects.
• Internship experience at a systems-heavy team — databases, ML infrastructure, GPU/HPC, storage, networking.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Background in computer architecture, OS, compilers, or distributed systems.

Perks & Benefits

• In-person, tight-knit team — 4 days/week in our SF Mission office.
• Competitive comp and meaningful startup equity.
• Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees.
• Commuter benefit.
• Team-building events and poker nights.
• Health, vision, and dental coverage.
• Flexible PTO.
• Latest Apple equipment.
• 401(k) plan with match.