Founding Engineer

1 day ago

Base Salary

$150k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

Design and build core architecture integrating AI agents with CAD, CAE, and PLM tools while meeting defense and medical customer security requirements.
Own end-to-end engineering delivery, including design decisions, reliability, observability, evaluation suites, regression testing, and on-call operations.
Ship production AI workflows into live customer engineering programs.
Build evaluation and training loops using simulation runs, test data, engineer corrections, and field outcomes, including reinforcement learning grounded in real physics.
Work alongside partner-company engineers to identify failures and convert findings into platform capabilities.
Contribute to the roadmap and execute quickly within customer engineering programs.
Expand the platform across operating companies while mentoring a small engineering team.

At least 4 years of experience shipping production software used by real customers daily.
Proven experience putting AI into production, including LLM agent workflows that call real tools, handle failures gracefully, and use rigorous evaluation suites.
Strong Python and backend or ML systems engineering skills, with judgment about when to use retrieval, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or conventional software.
Experience at a high-growth technology company with strong engineering standards.
Strong computer science fundamentals, ideally supported by a rigorous academic background.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to earn trust with experienced domain engineers.
Experience in frontier or applied AI, industrial software, simulation, CAD/CAE/EDA, or physical-world AI is a plus.
Prior production experience with reinforcement learning or fine-tuning is a plus.
Low-ego, high-standard working style and willingness to travel regularly to partner engineering sites.
Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.