Founding Engineer
Morphoai
Founding Engineer Opportunity
As a founding engineer, you will work directly with the CTO and partially with the CEO on critical parts of the product roadmap to develop and deploy new critical new capabilities. Build and deploy products for SMB and enterprise customers that will have a huge, tangible impact on customers' product development. Engage with customers to understand how users think about their problems and how we can develop usable products to solve them.
What you'll bring:
- 2+ years experience in hands-on software development of highly technical products or a PhD in a CS or robotics-related field (e.g. MechE, ECE, etc.).
- Past experience in software development, ideally for deployed products, open-source projects, or large codebases
- Past experience working with control systems, ideally having broad working knowledge in more than one of the following:
- Numerical optimization
- Generative AI development and its underlying core methodology
- Physical simulation and scientific computing
- Advanced robotic control methods
- Geometry processing representations and algorithms
- Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, from ideation to deployment to maintenance
- Intense curiosity, a desire to be continuously learning, grit, and an ability to communicate your technical ideas to a team
- Product-minded with bent towards ideating
- Proficiency in Python and leading ML frameworks such as Jax and PyTorch
Even better...
- Experience working at a startup as an early hire, and being in charge of deploying product and code
- Past roles that interface with end customers to influence software development
- Proficiency in additional programming languages including (e.g.) C++ and C#.
- Experience programming CUDA kernels for GPU-acceleration, and integration of those kernels with ML frameworks.
- Experience with visual computing domain-specific languages (DSLs) such as NVIDIA Warp or Taichi-Lang.
- Previous development work in Unity or NVIDIA Omniverse.
What we offer:
- 20 days off/year
- Medical and dental benefits
- Health and wellness discount plan
- 401(k) account
- Factorio (and other games) gaming buddies
Vacancy posted 5 days ago
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