Founding Engineer
Interface
tl;dr: Interface is looking for generalist founding engineers (ml, data, full-stack) who are scrappy, push boundaries and have a need to win. We need to work hard and build quick to win. We want people to challenge our ideas and build alternatives. LFG who you are:
- make two-way door decisions quickly
- fix things before being told they're broken
- be comfortable with our stack (tsx, py, docker, llms, yolo, tesseract, postgresql, aws, react native ...)
- have built real things that people use
- thrive in chaos
- speak to users/customers about their experience / problems / needs
- architect systems used daily by thousands of folks at $B+ companies
- build agent-swarm data pipelines that autonomously audit thousands of documents
- maintain infrastructure that scales
- ship fast - because perfectionism kills progress.
- you'll work with the founding team and customers directly
- the users' needs are more important than cool features and/or hype
- the whole team works 6 days a week at our office
- you'll be in SF: a lot of work, great weather and best tech ecosystem in the world
- Apply from anywhere in the world.
- Competitive pay, strong equity, and early team influence.
- $3,000 referral bonus for successful hires.
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