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Founding Software Engineer

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About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company building software that connects AI agents with real-world laboratory systems. You will own foundational infrastructure for experiment orchestration, agent connectivity, and distributed coordination across software and physical systems.

What You'll Do

  • Build systems that schedule and coordinate experiments across distributed labs.

  • Connect AI agents to experiments and instruments through reliable infrastructure.

  • Develop data infrastructure that captures system state, actions, measurements, failures, and provenance.

  • Design distributed systems to coordinate software, devices, and experiments reliably at scale.

  • Create developer tools and APIs for new workflows and integrations.

  • Debug and optimize across software, hardware, and physical systems.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of experience building production-grade software systems end to end, typically within a 3 to 8 year experience range.

  • Strong Python or Rust skills and a background building production backend or distributed systems at an early-stage startup.

  • Experience designing distributed systems involving APIs, networking, and asynchronous communication.

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, high ownership, and comfort working through ambiguity.

  • Experience with robotics, hardware integration, physical AI, lab automation, embedded systems, ML infrastructure, or production ML systems is a plus.

  • Experience debugging across hardware, firmware, and software, or building data infrastructure, orchestration systems, developer tools, SDKs, or integration APIs is also valuable.

  • Biology experience is not required.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $100,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The role may also be based in Zurich, Switzerland, or San Francisco, United States.

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