Founding Engineer, Applied AI

Join an early engineering team building AI automation for hardware engineering workflows in complex manufacturing environments. You will help shape the product architecture and engineering culture while delivering systems that address challenging customer needs.

• Design and build core workflows and infrastructure for AI agents used in hardware engineering including context management indexing and post-training systems.
• Develop AI agents and machine learning models that interpret and work with complex engineering design data in enterprise toolchains.
• Partner with customers and engineers to deliver reliable intuitive AI workflows for production use.
• Prototype ideas validate them with users and ship improvements from concept through deployment.
• Contribute to early architectural decisions engineering practices and product direction.

• Two to six years of experience in applied machine learning backend engineering or AI infrastructure or exceptional recent graduates with strong fundamentals.
• Strong familiarity with LLM architectures and current research in AI agents.
• Experience building production machine learning or AI systems including practical knowledge of search and information retrieval.
• Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with PyTorch Hugging Face and Weights & Biases.
• A bachelors degree or higher in computer science machine learning or an equivalent field.
• Experience with geometric data or CAD systems is a plus.
• A practical customer-focused approach and an ability to move quickly from idea to production.

Base salary is $180000 to $250000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

On-site in San Francisco California United States.