Founding C++ Software Engineer (San Francisco)

Overview

Founding C++ Systems Engineer at Thunder Compute. Base pay range: $170,000.00/yr - $210,000.00/yr .

Thunder Compute is the lowest cost, easiest GPU cloud for developers. We’re a small team building a cloud platform and virtualization software to improve GPU utilization and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Work on the C++ core of our virtualization stack with focus on performance optimization , systems debugging , and research into oversubscription, checkpointing, and related challenges.
• Balance work between production-system debugging and implementing customer-facing product improvements.
• Contribute to building high-performance, low-latency systems in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Must Haves
  • You’ve got the dog in you: you will own your work and be responsible for production systems from day 1
  • High speed-to-output
  • Willingness to assume a senior leadership role as we scale
  • Strong communication skills under pressure
• Preferred
  • CS Bachelor’s degree from top 50 US university, 3.5+ GPA
  • 1+ year of experience at a trading firm (Citadel, Jane Street, etc.), hardware company (NVIDIA, SambaNova), systems research or similar

Logistics

• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Employment type: Full-time
• Seniority level: Entry level (role may evolve with the company)

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