Senior Founding Engineer, Core Platform
$200k - $300kWintermeyer Ventures
Job Description
Job Description
About the Role
Join the core platform team at an AI company building agent-powered tools for chip verification. You will be a hands-on technical leader shaping the agent runtime and platform, working closely with the CTO and helping turn customer needs into reliable production software.
What You'll Do- Build and improve the agent runtime, AI-native electronic design automation tools, and core Python platform.
- Turn ambiguous problems into working AI systems, then improve them with traces, evaluations, telemetry, and product changes.
- Package and deploy the product in containers for on-premises and air-gapped customer environments.
- Help set technical direction, make architecture decisions, identify bottlenecks, and guide a fast-moving engineering team.
- Partner with customer-facing engineers to translate field learnings into product improvements.
- Typically 5 or more years of backend or infrastructure software engineering experience, with a record of owning major systems or engineering projects.
- Hands-on experience building and shipping an AI agent or LLM-based application to production, including ML-related software beyond research or model training.
- Strong Python skills and practical experience with Linux or Unix, containers, networking, and storage.
- Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and large-scale data handling.
- Engineering leadership experience, such as leading a major project or guiding a team, while remaining actively involved in implementation.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or mechanical engineering from a highly regarded university.
- Experience with post-training approaches such as RLHF, DPO, or reinforcement learning for agents is useful. Familiarity with TypeScript, Rust, C++, Go, or electronic design automation tools is also valued.
Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LocationOn-site in San Francisco, California.
Vacancy posted 5 days ago
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