9 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$120k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain production-grade full-stack systems capable of supporting 50–100 enterprise customers with minimal downtime.
- Design and deploy systems across the entire stack, including product, infrastructure, architecture, and data pipelines.
- Develop the core intelligence engine that orchestrates AI-driven operational insight for manufacturing customers.
- Own early technical decisions and work directly with the founders as Takt’s first engineering hire.
- Integrate with enterprise systems such as ERP, MES, and data historians.
Requirements
- At least 2–3 years of prior software engineering experience.
- Experience deploying and maintaining production-grade full-stack code at scale.
- Strong cloud infrastructure skills, preferably with Azure.
- Deep experience building data pipelines and cleaning messy, inconsistent real-world data.
- Strong generalist coding ability, particularly on the backend.
- Ability to make fast practical decisions, operate with incomplete information, and take substantial ownership.
- Preferred: experience shipping production AI/ML or LLM systems end-to-end.
- Preferred: experience with LLM tool orchestration, chain design, agent delegation, prompt engineering, and evaluation methodology.
- Preferred: experience integrating Microsoft Business Central, SAP, ERP, MES, or other enterprise data systems.
- Preferred: working knowledge of relational and SQL databases.
- Preferred: familiarity with permissioning models, data governance, SOC 2, GDPR, and enterprise security requirements.
Benefits
- In-person role in San Francisco 4–5 days per week, with relocation openness for candidates willing to move.
- Expected workload is 50–70 hours per week with space for personal interests.
- Opportunity to work directly with the founders as the first engineering hire and shape foundational systems.
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About Pear VC
Pear VC is an early-stage venture capital partnership that invests at pre-seed and seed, pairing capital with hands-on support, mentorship, and programs like its PearX accelerator for founding teams. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it backs software and technology startups across categories. Its portfolio includes companies that reached the public markets, such as DoorDash and Guardant Health.