Founding Engineer Applied AI

Company: Antes
Location: San Francisco CA (in person highly preferred; exceptional remote candidates considered)
Compensation: $180000 - $250000 equity
Employment Type: Full-time

Antes is a stealth startup building AI for complex hardware manufacturers at the intersection of AI hardware development and policy. It partners with iconic automotive aerospace and industrial manufacturers and is backed by General Catalyst Kleiner Perkins and the parent company of Ferrari.

The founding team spans AI advanced engineering and policy including a former Americas Cup world champion Stanford AI Lab researchers a former president of Hyundai a CTO of Caterpillar and a former Chairman of the FAA and FCC.

Antes is hiring an Applied AI Engineer to build the core systems behind its automation engine for hardware engineering. You will design implement and post-train AI agents that power critical product development workflows for global enterprise customers retrieving interpreting and manipulating complex engineering design data inside real engineering environments. As one of the first technical hires you will own mission-critical systems end to end.

• Design core workflows and infrastructure for hardware engineering agents: context management novel indexing and post-training.
• Build agents and ML models that reason over and manipulate complex engineering design data integrated with enterprise engineering tools.
• Work with customers and the team to deliver reliable trusted AI workflows in production.
• Prototype rapidly validate with real users and ship frequently.
• Shape engineering culture architecture and the products future.

• Bachelors or higher in Computer Science Machine Learning or equivalent experience
• Strong familiarity with LLM architectures and agent research
• Excellent programming skills with ML libraries such as PyTorch Hugging Face and Weights & Biases
• Experience building production ML or AI systems

REVENUE: 17% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $31K-$43K; 2 seat(s) up to $73K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Siemens PTC Autodesk Dassault Systemes Tesla SpaceX.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: unspecified (founding) yrs; production ML/AI systems; LLM/agents PyTorch; visa: unknown - confirm; location: SF preferred.