**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
Visa sponsorship is offered for this role.
