Software Engineer - Product

Product Engineer Opportunity

We're building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.

When people finance GPU clusters, the datacenters housing them, and the infrastructure powering them, they need "offtake" - meaning someone has signed a contract to lease the cluster for a period of time before its even built.

Financing a GPU cluster is inherently risky, since margins are thin and volumes are huge. Lenders don't want to take on the risk that cluster developers can't repay their loan, and cluster developers really don't want to risk not selling their cluster. As a result, risk is offloaded to the customer using fixed-price long-term contracts.

If you don't mitigate this customer risk, there's a bubble. This isn't SaaS anymore - application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference, but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions. If you mess up a purchase, it's game over: a minor shift in your revenue growth rate might mean the difference between profit or bankruptcy. But what if companies could exit their contract by selling it back to the market?

Otherwise, as AI scales, compute only becomes available to folks who can effectively take on that risk. A 2-person startup in a San Francisco Victorian can't realistically sign a 5-year take or pay contract on $100m supercomputers. But they may be able to buy the month of liquidity that someone else sold back.

So that's what we make: a liquid market for GPU offtake.

About the Role

As a Product Engineer at SFC, you'll build products which together de-risk the largest infrastructure buildout in history.

You'll work cross-functionally to build complex yet tasteful user interfaces for

• A public cloud provisioning access to billion-dollar supercomputers.
• An entirely new type of compute market and associated financial products.
• The world's cheapest trillion-token inference.

Responsibilities

• Own new user-facing features across our public cloud, market, and other products
• Ensure an exceptional user experience through thoughtful UI/UX design, leveraging frameworks like React and Next.js.
• Interact with developers at leading AI startups and labs to implement features from idea to production which directly address their needs
• Collaborate closely with systems engineers, trading engineers, GTM, finance, etc to achieve successful business outcomes
• When necessary, make measured technical tradeoffs - you know when to ship fast and break things vs when to code with care.

You May Be A Good Fit If You:

• Have excellent taste and high attention to detail in crafting user experiences
• Are an expert in React development or equivalent, including modern patterns (hooks, context, suspense) and server/client runtime component structure
• Have experience independently shipping end-to-end products in fast-paced, high-ownership environments
• Possess strong verbal and written communications skills
• Deeply empathize with our end customers and have immense drive to meet their needs by building the best product possible

Bonus Points If You:

• Have strong aesthetic taste
• Have previously built public cloud features for developers (ex: SSH key management, RBAC)
• Have built or maintained a CLI or other developer tools
• Have worked with alternative JavaScript runtimes like Bun and Deno

Benefits

Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company

Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits

We match 401(k) plans up to 4%

We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums

We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays

We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family

We cover lunch daily for employees

You can buy as many books for the office as you want

The San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, national origin, social or ethical origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.

We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance and California's ban-the-box laws.