Founding Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Founding Software Engineer (AI Evaluation Infrastructure)

Location: San Francisco CA (FiDi)

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: On-site (6 days a week in office)

About the Role

Our client is a high-growth AI startup that is building the most complex infrastructure for frontier data creation and evaluation for LLMs and AI Agents. They work with all five of the leading AI labs and top-tier YC companies reflecting their sharp growth rate and talent density. The company is backed by $3 million in funding and features a founding team from rigorous environments like Citadel Securities Google and Meta.

They are seeking a Founding Software Engineer for a high-impact non-narrow role with end-to-end ownership. You will operate across the full stack and infrastructure contributing directly to systems that push the frontier of AI evaluation.

What Youll Do

Design and build scalable systems: This includes RL (Reinforcement Learning) environments core APIs and human-in-the-loop platforms.
Tackle diverse projects: One week you might prototype a new RL environment from a research paper; the next youll deploy distributed experiments on Kubernetes; the week after you might improve dashboards or build a Kafka pipeline for analytics.
Lead an initial core project: Design and scale the AI interviewer platform to handle tens of thousands of interviews monthly.
Contribute to core infrastructure powering data and evaluation for leading AI labs.
Write clean maintainable code participate in code reviews and solve real-world scalability and reliability challenges.
Collaborate quickly across research product and design teams.

Requirements

0-3 years of experience as a full-stack Software Engineer. (The company is flexible for very strong backgrounds).
Demonstrated passion for taking on end-to-end ownership and thriving in a fast-paced high-intensity environment.

Benefits

Salary: $120K - $200K (Flexible for a very strong background)
Equity: 0.5% to 1%
Visa Sponsorship: Available
Benefits include: Health insurance daily lunch & dinner covered and a free gym membership.

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DescriptionFounding Software Engineer (AI Evaluation Infrastructure)Location: San Francisco CA (FiDi) Employment Type: Full-time Work Arrangement: On-site (6 days a week in office)About the RoleOur client is a high-growth AI startup that is building the most complex infrastructure for frontier data ...