Principal Engineer - PSL
Principal Engineer - PSL
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Principal Software Engineer
PSL is a startup studio and earlystage venture capital fund building the next generation of software companies in the Pacific Northwest. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to develop ideas and validate or them (ruthlessly). For the best ideas we invest significant development work and capital to turn these ideas into venturefunded companies with rapid customer and market adoption. See a few examples here.
Over 9 years 450 tested ideas and 40 spinouts we have developed a successful systematic approach for validating launching and scaling great ideas. Our team of engineers designers marketers and operators is obsessed with supporting and accelerating the work of uncommonly talented founders.
We are looking for a highly talented generalist software engineer. Like founding a startup partnering with earlystage founders requires flexibility multidisciplinary skills and onthejob learning. In this role you will work alongside the Pioneer Square Labs team and portfolio company leaders to do whatever is necessary to validate and launch startup ideas.
You are curious optimistic yet discerning and highly autonomous. You absolutely love startups.
As an engineer on the core team a typical day might include the following . . .
- Explore a new idea using the latest AI models
- Rapidly prototype to derisk new ideas
- Work on a productiongrade MVP for a new startup in typescript/python
- Help venture partners assess risk and opportunity in the Seed/A startup market
- Working with a seedstage startup CEO to derisk a product and develop a roadmap
- Evaluate hosting or 3rd party providers to solve a business problem
- Talk to prospective customers about an idea youre working on
- Set the technical foundation infrastructure and tools for early spinout traction and success
- Recruit and interview highcaliber technical talent for the first 5 roles across our portfolio companies (e.g. CTO earlyengineering hires)
- Developing internal systems tools and processes for repeatable scaling and learning
Signs this might be a fit
- You love writing code building things and moving fast.
- Youve founded your own or worked in other earlystage highgrowth companies
- Thinking about possibilities keeps you up at night.
- Youre customerfocused
- You like to have a say in product direction and design.
- You like to learn and teach others.
- You have great taste and judgment when it comes to tooling and architecture.
- You pride yourself on being a resource even for nontechnical people on your team.
- You engage directly with and add value to other communities of practice around Seattle.
- You thrive in an environment that changes quickly and is inherently uncertain.
Bonus points if
- Youre comfortable navigating enterprise security and compliance requirements.
- You have deep expertise in developing evaluation suites for LLMs.
- You have strong direct connections to infrastructure partners (AWS Azure Github OpenAI)
- You have a thought leadership position and you like creating content
- Youve managed a large wellknown engineering team
The salary range for this position is $. Please note that the base salary range is a guideline and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as the candidates relevant experience qualifications education skill level competencies and work location. In addition this position is eligible for an equity grant.
PSL provides the following benefits for regular fulltime employees:
- Medical dental vision EAP and life insurance. Employee premiums are covered at 100 and dependent premiums are covered at 75
- Long and Shortterm disability coverage fully paid for by PSL
- Selfmanaged paid time off
- Commuter benefit of either a fully subsidized ORCA pass or a parking spot (value up to $300/month)
- Once weekly lunch delivery
- Two volunteer days off to dedicate to a cause important to you
- Professional development allowance up to $1500 annually
We are an equal opportunity employer and highly value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
