Founding Engineer

https://airtable.com/appRmY0WjwYJaJTWs/pagbiVz7BUNOhTj2O/form 

What you'll do

• As a founding engineer, you will work directly with the CTO and partially with the CEO on critical parts of the product roadmap to develop and deploy new critical new capabilities.
• Build and deploy products for SMB and enterprise customers that will have a huge, tangible impact on customers’ product development.
• Engage with customers to understand how users think about their problems and how we can develop usable products to solve them.

What you’ll bring

• 2+ years experience in hands-on software development of highly technical products or a PhD in a CS or robotics-related field (e.g. MechE, ECE, etc.)..
• Past experience in software development, ideally for deployed products, open-source projects, or large codebases 
• Past experience working with control systems, Ideally having broad working knowledge in more than one of the following:
• Numerical optimization
• Generative AI development and its underlying core methodology
• Physical simulation and scientific computing
• Advanced robotic control methods 
• Geometry processing representations and algorithms
• Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, from ideation to deployment to maintenance
• Intense curiosity, a desire to be continuously learning, grit, and an ability to communicate your technical ideas to a team
• Product-minded with bent towards ideating
• Proficiency in Python and leading ML frameworks such as Jax and PyTorch

Even better...

• Experience working at a startup as an early hire, and being in charge of deploying product and code
• Past roles that interface with end customers to influence software development
• Proficiency in additional programming languages including (e.g.) C++ and C#.
• Experience programming CUDA kernels for GPU-acceleration, and integration of those kernels with ML frameworks.
• Experience with visual computing domain-specific languages (DSLs) such as NVIDIA Warp or Taichi-Lang.
• Previous development work in Unity or NVIDIA Omniverse.

What we offer

We offer the following to full-time employees:

• 20 days off/ year
• Medical and dental benefits 
• Health and wellness discount plan
• 401(k) account
• Factorio (and other games) gaming buddies