At CosmicTalent, we transcend traditional hiring practices to connect visionary companies with exceptional talent. We are an executive placement agency specializing in new-age hires for early growth startups and mid-size companies. Our approach is driven by a passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence, ensuring that we identify and place individuals who align perfectly with your organization’s goals.

Join us in redefining talent acquisition. At CosmicTalent, we propel your organization to new heights by uncovering the stars of tomorrow, guiding you through a universe where innovation and talent are limitless.

CosmicTalent

At CosmicTalent, we transcend traditional hiring practices to connect visionary companies with exceptional talent. We are an executive placement agency specializing in new-age hires for early growth startups and mid-size companies. Our approach is driven by a passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence, ensuring that we identify and place individuals who align perfectly with your organization’s goals.

Join us in redefining talent acquisition and propel your organization to new heights by uncovering the stars of tomorrow, guiding you through a universe where innovation and talent are limitless.

Founder

Los Angeles Unified School District

Conduct job analysis of candidate pool for diverse job classifications within the District.
Plan, design, validate, and implement employment assessments based on job analyses and
criteria.
Partner with leadership on initiatives and advocacy of diverse candidate experience.
Utilize creative approaches to recruit highly qualified candidates across diverse job families, ranging from senior leaders to skilled trades. This includes Administrative, Communications, Facilities, Food Services, Human Resources, IT, Instructional Assistants, Legal, Procurement, Finance, Transportation, and School Safety Services, covering over 1,200 job classifications.
Attend multiple hiring events in the Los Angeles areas to promote opportunities and engage
talent.

Human Resources Specialist III (Sr. Recruiter) 

From missile warning to advanced national security space missions, Millennium rapidly delivers affordable prototype and constellation solutions across orbits. Critical space systems have to work the first time, every time. And, our customers need them fast.   That's what we do.

Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company

Full lifecycle recruiting, including sourcing, screening, negotiations, and candidate relationship management for 25+ aerospace daily average requisitions. 
Host orientations for new hires and support onboarding.
Regularly track pipeline activity to optimize recruiting efforts and innovation of the recruiting process.
Consult with leadership to make data-based decisions on system processes and approaches.
Ability to adapt in a fast-paced, continually evolving environment using proven time management skills and working with a strong sense of urgency.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Conduct job analysis of candidate pool for diverse IT job classifications within the District.
Plan, design, validate, and implement employment assessments based on job analyses and
criteria.
Work closely with IT and leadership on initiatives and advocacy of diverse candidate experience.
Utilize creative approaches to source highly qualified candidates for all types and levels of
occupations within the IT department.
Contribute to employer branding and strategic marketing campaigns such as (Meeting with
department leaders on innovative ways to meet/engage candidates, advertising current/upcoming
job roles to media platforms, networking with specialized groups and engaging relevant
demographics with LAUSD content).
Meet with various SME’s (Subject Matter Experts) for debriefings and intakes for the candidate
recruitment process.

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement

Amazon

**Position affected by RIF

Full lifecycle recruiting, including sourcing, screening, negotiations, and candidate relationship
management for Senior/Principal Level software engineers.
Utilized data analytics to regularly track pipeline activity and optimize recruiting efforts,
achieving a 25% improvement in time-to-fill metrics.
Consult with hiring managers to make data-based decisions on processes and approaches.
Ability to adapt in a fast-paced, continually evolving environment using proven time management
skills and working with a strong sense of urgency.

Senior Technical Recruiter 

Andrew Price

Founding Backend Engineer for fast-paced startup, Retell AI. Must have startup experience, founder-like mindset, and top CS program degree. Design scalable voice AI solutions, lead cross-functional initiatives in Redwood City, CA. On-site, $170K-$220K, visa sponsorship available. Collaborate with top-tier team from Meta, Google, TikTok.

Jatin Bhutka

George Yuan

Dhruv Mevada

Shelley Tong

Jeyanthh Ravikumar

Yuhan He

Retell AI is a powerful platform for building production ready voice AI. We recently closed a $4.5M seed round and achieved remarkable growth, reaching $3M in revenue within six months. Retell AI is proudly backed by Alt Capital, Y Combinator, and other leading investors.Our team is composed of experts from Meta, Google, and TikTok, and we operate out of our in-person office in Redwood City.We are at a pivotal moment in history where Voice AI will become the primary interface for accessing products and services, revolutionizing our interactions with machines for the better. Retell AI is at the forefront of creating this new reality.

Retell AI (YC W24)

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.retellai.com/">Retell</a> is a AI phone call platform automating call center communications, including sales, support, customer engagement, and retention calls (e.g., promotional calls, debt collection, etc.).We closed a $4.7M seed round and achieved remarkable growth, reaching $5M in annualized revenue within 10 months. Retell AI is proudly backed by Alt Capital, Y Combinator, and other leading investors.Position: Founding Senior Software EngineerJob type: Full-time, 40 hr/week onsite with flexible hours + 10-20 hr/week WFHSalary: $170K - $220KEquity: 0.50% - 1.50%Bonus: $17k - $22KLocation: Redwood City, CA, USUS visas: Sponsors Visa &amp; GreencardBenefits: 100% medical, dental, vision insurance covereage. Unlimited breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Gym, daily communte fee reimbursed.More about this role description <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://auspicious-fright-d1c.notion.site/Retell-AI-Founding-Engineer-Role-13e334b239fd80c3affcd28609205c37">here</a>

Founding Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

On-site in Redwood City/San Francisco Bay Area

Founder-like mindset, passion for impact. Bachelor's or practical experience. Fast-growth startup/FANNG experience. Startup background essential. Design scalable solutions, ship features for voice AI platform. Lead frontend, backend, infrastructure initiatives. Collaborate with designers, engineers. On-site in Redwood City, CA. Visa sponsorship available. $170K-$220K salary.

Judy Lian

Tuyen L.

Andrew Song

Michael Casebolt

Jinxin(Jinx) Hu

Founding Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack)

About Retell AI
Retell AI is a powerful platform for building production ready voice AI. We recently closed a $4.5M seed round and achieved remarkable growth, reaching $3M in revenue within six months. Retell AI is proudly backed by Alt Capital, Y Combinator, and other leading investors.

Our team is composed of experts from Meta, Google, and TikTok, and we operate out of our in-person office in Redwood City.

About the role
Skills: Node.js, React, Software Architecture
Roles and responsibilities

Design scalable solutions and ship features for a production-ready voice agent platform.
Lead initiatives across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, with opportunities for ownership and growth.
Collaborate closely with designers and engineers throughout the design and implementation phases.
Provide technical support, customer success assistance, and implementation guidance directly to our customers.
Qualifications

3+ years of experience in full-stack software development.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
A founder-like mindset with a passion for taking responsibility and making a significant impact.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, quickly learning and adapting to new challenges.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to commit to decisions even when there are disagreements.
Previous startup experience is a plus.
Benefits

Competitive salary with an equity package.
Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
Meal and commute expenses fully covered.
Option to reside at the office with your own private bedroom.
A spacious and comfortable work environment, complete with unlimited snacks and drinks.
A friendly office cat to brighten your day!
The chance to innovate and push the boundaries of voice AI in a dynamic, venture-backed startup.

Emily Caples

Nile Henry

Erick Martinez Jr

Norton Gumbo

Jack L

Food management plays a vital role in hospital patient care, yet modern cloud-based software has bypassed this space until now. As the healthcare industry grapples with rising inflation, staffing shortages, and increased pressure on patient satisfaction, we at Banquet Health have developed a comprehensive solution to effectively address these pain points and revolutionize hospital food management.

Banquet Health

Banquet Health is on the lookout for a highly skilled and motivated Full Stack Engineer to join our founding team. Our mission at Banquet Health is to revolutionize healthcare nutrition, a critical component in transforming patient care in a substantial $28B market.

We're a small team and it's a very early role, so there's a lot of autonomy, customer interaction, and strategy that you will be involved in

Full-Stack Engineer

Banquet Health is on the lookout for a highly skilled and motivated Full Stack Engineer to join our founding team. Our mission at Banquet Health is to revolutionize healthcare nutrition, a critical component in transforming patient care in a substantial $28B market.

You will:
Design and implement scalable full-stack solutions for hospital systems using our modern tech stack (React, Typescript, Postgres, RedwoodJS, AWS, Terraform)

Engage directly with customers, understanding their needs and delivering innovative software solutions

Contribute to our product roadmap and engineering strategy, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our platform and company culture

You have:
4+ years of experience in full-stack development, including expertise in backend systems

Overlap with our tech stack, particularly Typescript, React, and Postgres

About us:
Banquet Health is a venture-backed, seed-stage startup on a mission to reshape healthcare nutrition through innovative software solutions. We are a small, but highly talented team of lifelong learners across America.

Our offer:
A competitive salary with significant early-stage equity

Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement benefits, and unlimited PTO

Hybrid work model: 1-3 days per week in office for CA or NY candidates

A commitment to an inclusive, diverse, and supportive work environment

Equal opportunity:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Greencard or US citizen only. Cannot do any visa sponsorships or transfers. 

San Francisco (Hybrid), New York City (Hybrid), U.S. (Remote)

Raby Y.

Scott S.

Manjil Tamang

Bandana exists to improve the livelihoods of hourly workers through transparency and trust, starting with finding better jobs. The broader vision? Re-ignite the belief in the “American Dream” for workers. Specifically, the American promise that hard work can lead to success — and that this applies to all, not just the privileged few.We seek people who:<ul><li>Lead with Head AND Heart: Smart isn’t enough. At Bandana, we want people who care deeply about the everyday Americans that we serve.</li><li>Have Informed Opinions (Loosely Held): We have the conviction that building for workers first is the key to our success. Not everyone agrees. We are building an opinionated product For the People — we want to hear yours.</li><li>Grow Through Action: We learn by doing. This takes time, energy, and in-person investment. Restoring the American Dream is not a 9-to-5 job.</li><li>Want to Work On What Matters: At Bandana, we work on challenging problems that make a real difference for real people.</li></ul>Learn more about our company vision <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.notion.so/ec2283e2a5c94439a0a603ba2068736a?pvs=21">here</a>, coverage on Techcrunch <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/06/bandana-is-building-a-platform-to-help-hourly-wage-workers-find-better-jobs/">here</a>, and check out our current product at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://bandana.co/search">bandana.co/search</a>.

Bandana

<ul><li>Work on Bandana business and core product, infra and observability, and internal tooling using modern technologies</li><li>Deliver the full software development lifecycle: design, document, develop, test, demo, deploy, and support production use</li><li>Work with the rest of the Bandana team to understand user needs and drive product features to address them</li><li>Drive and maintain best practices in engineering and design</li></ul>

Full Stack Engineer

Can sponsor visas for exceptional candidates

Mechanical Engineer at Neros: Own hardware design from concept to production. Must have experience with work instructions, first principles problem-solving, electrical engineering, CAD (Solidworks/NX), MES/ERP systems, and high-level product system ownership. Requires Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from a top school. On-site in El Segundo, CA. No visa sponsorship. Salary $110k-$160k.

Andrew Geiman

Kailee Frocchi

Neros is transforming a defense industry mired in costly, behemoth machinery—to circumvent a looming vulnerability gap, to give dismounted soldiers a fighting chance against tanks, and ultimately, to get as many humans off the battlefield as possible.While consumer technology is evolving by bounds on the smaller-cheaper-better path, U.S. defense technology wallows in the large, centralized, and wildly expensive paradigm. Our air, land, and sea machinery budget is staggering; yet these large assets can still be vulnerable to very small weapons. When swarm technology comes into its own, the asymmetry will escalate. Nowhere is the pattern more glaring than in small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS)—drones.&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-neros-next-gen-drones-made-in-america/">https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-neros-next-gen-drones-made-in-america/</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/drone-startup-neros-raises-funding-sequoia-eyes-supplies-ukraine-us-military-2024-05-20/">https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/drone-startup-neros-raises-funding-sequoia-eyes-supplies-ukraine-us-military-2024-05-20/</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ZlkyWm-Rc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ZlkyWm-Rc</a>We are obsessive about vertical integration, developing a full suite of technologies including custom radios, compute, power electronics, ground stations and more. Neros has an engineering first culture that allows engineers to build the systems of their dreams.

Neros Technologies

a drone that goes 0-60 in one second and can blow up a tank

As a Mechanical Engineer at Neros, you will own key components of our products, starting from the conceptual design phase all the way through production. This is a dynamic and exciting role at a rapidly growing startup and will report directly to the Head of Engineering.&nbsp;

Mechanical Engineer

Must be us person, must be able to get top secret security clearance

Sayhat Karca

Robert McKenzie

Coining MFG LLC, with a proud history of over 100 years in operation, is a leading manufacturer of critical components for the aerospace, medical, and telecom industries. As an essential business, we have consistently delivered revenue growth and profitability throughout our long-standing presence in the market. Our supportive and collaborative work environment has been a key factor in our success.

Coining MFG's manufacturing department is equipped with over 100 specialty machines including presses with capacities up to 400 tons and stroke speeds as high as 400 strokes per minute. The integration of our Wire EDM, CNC machining, and Screw machine capabilities allows us to service specific application requests with the broadest selection of manufacturing and engineering solutions.

Operations Manager

Coining MFG

As a key member of Coining MFG management, you will lead the quality team in supporting the manufacturing of critical metal stamped and machined components serving the Aerospace, Defense, Communications, Semiconductor and Medical industries.  You will also be responsible for ensuring continued compliance to ISO, customer quality requirements, and future complacency endeavors.

Quality Manager

Quality Manager – Job Description
As a key member of Coining MFG management, you will lead the quality team in supporting 
the manufacturing of critical metal stamped and machined components serving the Aerospace,
Defense, Communications, Semiconductor and Medical industries.  You will also be responsible 
for ensuring continued compliance to ISO, customer quality requirements, and future 
complacency endeavors.  
Responsibilities:
Manage and supervise the quality department. This includes but is not limited to the 
following:
oDelegate work effectively ensuring inspection is performed correctly at all stages 
of production. 
oReview inspector performance on a consistent basis
oEfficiently schedule employee vacation and overtime
Create full inspection plans for production utilizing specific industry knowledge. i.e First 
Piece Inspection, In-Process, FAI.
Measure and act on quality KPI’s such as process variation, internal and external reject 
rate, time to inspect, etc. 
Plan and drive audits to meet compliance of regulatory standards such as ISO, IATF, and
AS
Act as the management representative during registrar and customer audits.
Initiate, track, and act on internal and external corrective actions.
Oversee & continuously improve Coining MFG’s quality management system (QMS).
Lead the quality system managers (QSM) ensuring up-to-date training in ISO9001, and 
other regulatory standards as required.
Track and communicate reoccurring internal quality issues to the respective process 
owners such as engineering and/or production.
Assist in program launch (NPI), process qualification and equipment validation.
Manage equipment calibration systems and records.
Performs other related duties as assigned by management.
Qualifications (Required):
8-12 years of quality management experience, including but not limited to:
oSupervising quality personnel in the performance of their job duties.
oMaintaining/improving upon the existing ISO 9001 quality system including acting as
the management representative during registrar and customer audits.
oParticipate in NPI team activities including leading communication with customer 
quality representatives to ensure smooth product launches.
oResolve customer complaints timely and with a focus on effective interim and 
permanent corrective actions.
oMaintaining compliance with aerospace (AS9100), automotive (IATF16949), defense,
and/or medical (ISO13485) 
oExperience creating and submitting PPAPs to customers.
4 years’ Experience with Excel and/or other quality related software ie. Minitab.
Education: Bachelor of science 
U.S. Citizen or permanent resident (green card holder)
Qualifications (Preferred):
Knowledge of Health, Safe and Environmental compliance
Knowledge of lean manufacturing & continuous improvement tools
Physical Requirements: 
Normal manufacturing working environment - standing, sitting, walking - typically inside
a building. Occasional twisting, lifting, bending, and carrying. Some exposure to noise, 
dirt, chemicals, and temperature variations (while using OSHA relevant PPE). Frequent 
use of computers. Occasional local travel.

We prefer local candidates. They must be able to commute to 35 Monhegan Street, Clifton, NJ.

San Francisco, CA, on-site. Visa sponsorship available. $200K-$260K. Founding Staff Engineer/Tech Lead at Fulcrum. Must navigate vague problems, act decisively, communicate technical vision, and have startup experience. Build AI-integrated SaaS, mentor team, prototype products, engage with customers, and ensure secure code. Top-tier degree required.

Hooman Mohammadi

Fulcrum is a generative AI company focused on revolutionizing enterprise automation. Our mission is to alleviate the burden of mundane, repetitive tasks within businesses, which currently incurs costs exceeding $300 billion annually. Through our flagship product, Fulcrum, we offer a solution that eliminates the need for extensive manual labor. Our powerful AI-automation platform helps industries, such as insurance brokerages, deliver a more premium customer experience and improve their profit margins. Our generative AI platform enables the rapid development of specialized document processing and UI automation workflows. This allows brokerages to streamline operations, free up account managers, and boost customer experience - all while improving profit margins.

Fulcrum

Fulcrum is transforming business automation with their GenAI products. This role involves prototyping, developing, and delivering innovative features that meet the complex needs of enterprise customers. If you have a passion for AI and a desire to drive technical breakthroughs, apply now to be part of this extraordinary team.

As a Founding Staff Engineer / Tech Lead at Fulcrum, you will own and lead engineering projects across our various product lines. You will work closely with the founders, enterprise customers, and a world-class technical team to revolutionize the way enterprises operate. We are looking for individuals who have worked across the stack on incredible products across consumer, enterprise, and various industries and who are excited about building the future of the modern enterprise and GenAI products.This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Staff Engineer / Tech Lead

# Founding Team — Staff Engineer / Tech Lead

Full-time • On-site • San Francisco • $200k - $260k • 1% - 2%

# About this role

---

Join Fulcrum's exceptional founding team to revolutionize the $1T+ insurance industry. We're starting by transforming insurance brokerages with cutting-edge AI Agents, serving several of the largest brokerages in the world.

# Why Fulcrum

---

- **Real traction at break-neck speed**: 6-7 figure enterprise contracts with some of the largest companies in the world, actual live customers raving about the product, in less than a year.
- **Top of market compensation**: on both cash and equity.
- **Exceptional team**: with background from firms like Glean, Scale AI, Google, Microsoft, Uber, Stanford, Columbia, IIT, Tower Research, McKinsey
- **Tremendous growth opportunity with lightning-fast executors and great mentors**:
    - Limitless potential for growth and ownership within the company
    - Opportunity to work alongside some of the most relentless executors in a high functioning environment
    - Gain mentorship from seasoned founders, leaders and investors in top companies e.g., Glean, Facebook, Uber, Automation Anywhere, Replit, Netflix, Databricks, Jasper, amongst others.

# Challenges

---

Our initial focus involves developing an AI-driven platform capable of performing a diverse range of back-office tasks with unparalleled speed, accuracy, and reliability. This endeavor presents a multitude of unique challenges, including:

1. Pushing beyond the boundaries of current AI research to address complexities surpassing existing benchmarks
2. Building scalable systems that can effortlessly handle millions of workflow iterations
3. Solving intricate engineering, architectural, and business challenges
4. Lead projects with a team of top-tier engineering talent

# The Founding Staff Engineer / Tech Lead Role

---

As a Founding Staff Engineer / Tech Lead at Fulcrum, you will own and lead engineering projects across our various product lines. You will work closely with the founders, enterprise customers, and a world-class technical team to revolutionize the way enterprises operate. We are looking for individuals who have worked across the stack on incredible products across consumer, enterprise, and various industries and who are excited about building the future of the modern enterprise and GenAI products.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

## Responsibilities:

- **Operate as technical lead to build functionality with world-class engineers:** work with our growing team of top-tier technical talent to create technical breakthroughs, manage core releases, mentor junior team members.
- **Integrate traditional SaaS with AI Applications:** develop end-to-end features touching all parts of the stack to enable AI workflow and tasks.
- **Zero-to-one product development:** rapidly prototype, evaluate, and integrate new product features and custom projects for our customers.
- **Customer obsession:** Establish credibility with customers, walk them through the functionality, address their concerns
- **Ship clean, well-documented and secure code:** implement security concepts to develop software dealing with sensitive data, work with the security teams choosing what to build vs buy.
- **Realize technical breakthroughs to enable novel AI-first workflows**: Envision, develop, and deploy scalable software applications utilizing AI and machine learning techniques.

## About You:

- **Strong technical experience**: 6-8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on cloud / enterprise software. AI, machine learning, or related areas are a plus.
- **Exceptional communication skills**: You have extremely strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate technical vision as well as build relationships with customers
- **Exceptional and detail-oriented problem solver**: You have an established strength in problem solving, with a structured and analytical thinking approach.
- **Product mindset**: You have a strong product mindset, can put yourselves in the shoes of a user and critically think through UX to ensure releases are well rounded.
- **Bias for action**: You strike the right balance in thinking through and executing fast, rather than getting stuck in analysis-paralysis.
- **Startup experience — big plus**: Previous experience working in an early-stage startup or dynamic environment is a big plus.

If you are a motivated tech lead with a passion for AI and a desire to drive innovation in the enterprise industry, we want to hear from you! Apply now to be part of an extraordinary team!

Nilay Pande

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://dotproduct.xyz/">Dot Product</a> is building AI coworkers for operations teams. We call them Operators.Building Operators that can reliably do work equivalent to millions of human hours requires solving a lot of very hard engineering, machine learning, and product design challenges; it has never been done before. We believe that if we are successful, the results will be noticeable in the global GDP numbers, which makes us extremely excited to work on this every day. We have an opportunity to make a real dent and build a generational company.We are a small team of builders and former founders, based in San Francisco. We’ve raised $6m from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://www.indexventures.com/">Index Ventures</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://x.com/lachygroom">Lachy Groom</a>, with participation from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://x.com/FEhrsam">Fred Ehrsam</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://www.conviction.com/">Conviction</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://x.com/Benioff">Marc Benioff</a>, and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://x.com/balajis">many</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://x.com/emiliemc">other</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://x.com/karrisaarinen">great</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="https://x.com/dwr">angels</a>. If you are excited by our work and vision, consider applying to join our founding team.<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/umasood/">Usman Masood</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/maksimstepanenko/">Maksim Stepanenko</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/i-am-so-good-at-computer-science/">Michael Dong</a></li></ul>

Dot Product

Joining Dot Product as a Founding ML Engineer means working on cutting-edge technology to create a digital humanoid coworker that can operate alongside humans using the same tools. This role involves designing and training models for multi-step workflows, experimenting with ML models, and building low latency inference infrastructure. You will be part of the founding team, collaborating closely with customers and contributing to the growth and success of the company.

Founding ML Engineer

# Founding ML Engineer

At [Dot Product](https://dotproduct.xyz/), our mission is to build the humanoid equivalent of the digital world—a superhuman AI coworker that can work alongside people, using exactly the same tools designed for humans. We believe that companies of the future will employ millions of our AI coworkers, which will free up people to focus on the higher leverage and more intellectually stimulating problems.

Building a digital humanoid coworker that can reliably do work equivalent to millions of human hours requires solving a lot of very hard AI, engineering, and product challenges; it’s never been done before. We believe that if we are successful, the results will be noticeable in the global GDP numbers, which makes us extremely excited to work on this every day. We have an opportunity to make a real dent and build a generational company. If this sounds as exciting to you as it does to us, we would love to chat!

We are a small team of experienced builders and former founders backed by some of the top investors and operators in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures and Lachy Groom.

- [Maksim Stepanenko](https://twitter.com/maksim_s)
    - Engineer #5 at Coinbase, where he built internal hedging infrastructure, started Coinbase Commerce, and was on the founding teams of Coinbase USDC and Coinbase Ventures
    - Cofounder, President and CTO at [Primer](https://www.notboring.co/p/primer-the-ambitious-home-for-ambitious) ($20M raised from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Lachy Groom, and others)
    - Computer Science at MIT
- [Usman Masood](https://twitter.com/usmanm)
    - Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager at Stripe, where he built [Ledger](https://stripe.com/blog/ledger-stripe-system-for-tracking-and-validating-money-movement) and the transactional balance tracking system that powers the Stripe API
    - CTO at [Pipe](https://pipe.com/), where he led and grew the engineering and data science team from 5-35 members
    - Chief Architect at [PipelineDB](https://github.com/pipelinedb/pipelinedb) (acquired by Confluent), where he built stream processing capabilities into Postgres
    - Computer Science and Philosophy at MIT

## Why work at Dot Product?

- We care deeply about doing [Great Work](https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html).
- We are solving a hard technology problem with an enormous market and impact opportunity on the other side.
- We are a small team of staff-level builders and intend to keep it this way. We hail from companies like Stripe, Coinbase, Primer and Pipe.
- You will get to be part of the founding team and build the company together with us. We mean it.
- We work in person out of our office in San Francisco.

## Who we are looking for

We aim to build this company with ambitious, driven, and kind colleagues. These are the qualities we are looking for in our founding team:

- An extreme level of autonomy, ownership, and self-direction.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. We will ask for writing samples.
- Experience and/or a strong desire to work in an early-stage environment.
- Ability to take a long view of the world, but remain hyper focused on moving the needle every day.
- A demonstrated history of technical excellence in previous jobs, personal projects, or school.

## **What you will work on**

- Design and train models to run multi-step workflows by operating software directly (via keyboard and mouse) and calling APIs.
- Experiment with and fine-tune existing ML models to find the right balance between size, accuracy and speed.
- Design benchmarks to improve our understanding of data and model performance.
- Build low latency inference infrastructure for speech, language and reasoning models.
- Everyone on the founding team is expected to work extremely closely with our customers.

## Must haves

- 3+ years of experience working on deep learning.
- 5+ years of professional experience.
- Strong Python programmer, and expertise in ML frameworks e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow.
- Experience building, deploying and running ML infrastructure.
- Familiarity with the state of the art LLMs and their strengths/weaknesses.
- Experience doing 0-to-1 work on ML models and infrastructure.
- High level of autonomy and self-direction.

## Nice to haves

- Experience training, fine-tuning and prompt engineering generative models and LLMs.
- Experience with vector databases, embedding models and built real-world RAG pipeline construction.
- Used and tuned ASR and TTS models.
- You have deeply thought about or tinkered with LAM models—agents that can reason and perform actions to accomplish tasks.
- Experience working at early-stage and fast-growing companies.

If this sounds interesting to you, we’d love to chat. Please reach out to us at [hello+ml@dotproduct.xyz](mailto:hello+ml@dotproduct.xyz).

We are happy to sponsor visas like TN1, E3 etc. For H1B (or any lottery based visa) we are happy to transfer them but not sponsor new ones, since there's uncertainty in terms of whether the visa will actually get issued or not.

Lucas Novak

ZK proofs are one of the most critical technologies to blockchain scaling, interoperability and privacy, but are too complex for most developers today. Succinct’s mission is to make zero knowledge proofs accessible to any developer.



[SP1](https://blog.succinct.xyz/introducing-sp1/) is a state of the art zkVM with performance that rivals custom ZK circuits that lets developers use ZK with normal programming languages, like Rust. The [Succinct Prover Network](https://blog.succinct.xyz/succinct-network/), under active development, is a hosted infrastructure layer for any application to outsource proof-generation for open-source proof systems.

Today, top teams in the space, including [Celestia](https://blog.succinct.xyz/blobstreamx/), [Wormhole](https://wormhole.foundation/blog/wormhole-foundation-succinct-ethereum-zk-light-client?ref=blog.succinct.xyz), [Lido](https://research.lido.fi/t/zk-lido-oracle-powered-by-succinct/5747/7?ref=blog.succinct.xyz), [Avail](https://blog.succinct.xyz/vector-x/), [Near](https://alpha.succinct.xyz/near/near-light-client?ref=blog.succinct.xyz), and [Gnosis](https://forum.gnosis.io/t/gip-57-should-gnosis-dao-support-research-of-a-zksnark-enabled-light-client-and-bridge/5421?ref=blog.succinct.xyz) are using Succinct’s infrastructure to build with ZKPs. We have a track record of shipping excellent products and cutting-edge technical work in ZK and have significant revenue from our customers.



We recently announced our [$55 million raise](https://twitter.com/SuccinctLabs/status/1770843544388771914) across our Seed and Series A led by Paradigm, the best investor in crypto. Our team is still small but incredibly strong, and we are looking for exceptional people who are excited to work hard on challenging and impactful problems in a fast-paced environment. Our office is located in San Francisco and we have a strong preference for candidates based there for this role, but are open to exceptional remote candidates.

Succinct

We are looking for an experienced, generalist software engineer to join our team to help across all parts of Succinct's stack, including distributed proving infrastructure for SP1 and building the decentralized prover network. In this role you will:

* Build and maintain an optimized, distributed proving cluster for SP1, our SOTA zkVM
* Work on general backend systems, including indexing, relaying, monitoring and more for our prover network

We are looking for a strong generalist who is comfortable across all parts of the stack, ranging from infra, backend to being able to quickly pick up new technologies and frameworks.

Senior Software Engineer

URL:https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/succinct/4dbc1466-bc8f-492b-a0c7-cc3ae841909b
Senior Software Engineer
Location

San Francisco (Preferred), Remote

Type

Full time

Department

Engineering

Overview
Application
What We're Building

ZK proofs are one of the most critical technologies to blockchain scaling, interoperability and privacy, but are too complex for most developers today. Succinct’s mission is to make zero knowledge proofs accessible to any developer.

SP1 is a state of the art zkVM with performance that rivals custom ZK circuits that lets developers use ZK with normal programming languages, like Rust. The Succinct Prover Network, under active development, is a hosted infrastructure layer for any application to outsource proof-generation for open-source proof systems.

Today, top teams in the space, including Celestia, Wormhole, Lido, Avail, Near, and Gnosis are using Succinct’s infrastructure to build with ZKPs. We have a track record of shipping excellent products and cutting-edge technical work in ZK and have significant revenue from our customers.

We recently announced our $55 million raise across our Seed and Series A led by Paradigm, the best investor in crypto. Our team is still small but incredibly strong, and we are looking for exceptional people who are excited to work hard on challenging and impactful problems in a fast-paced environment. Our office is located in San Francisco and we have a strong preference for candidates based there for this role, but are open to exceptional remote candidates.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced, generalist software engineer to join our team to help across all parts of Succinct's stack, including distributed proving infrastructure for SP1 and building the decentralized prover network. In this role you will:

Build and maintain an optimized, distributed proving cluster for SP1, our SOTA zkVM

Work on general backend systems, including indexing, relaying, monitoring and more for our prover network

We are looking for a strong generalist who is comfortable across all parts of the stack, ranging from infra, backend to being able to quickly pick up new technologies and frameworks.

Qualifications

Experience building software systems, with high-quality and well-documented production code

A demonstrated track record of high agency, willingness to dive into unfamiliar technical and non-technical areas, and a team-first attitude

Passion for crypto and ZKPs

Ownership mindset 

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

Familiarity with optimized systems programming

Strong grasp of Rust

Location

Everyone on our team is located in San Francisco and works together in-person. Ideally, we’re looking for someone who enjoys in-person work and is already in San Francisco or willing to relocate (we can cover relocation costs). For senior candidates who are an exceptional fit, we’d consider a remote position as long as you’re available to onboard in-person for the first few months.

Benefits

Above-market salary and generous equity compensation

Unlimited PTO

Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents

Lunch and dinner provided at the office

Optional, company-paid travel to events and conferences

Even if the listed qualifications don't seem like an exact match, passionate and enthusiastic people who love to quickly learn are always welcome! Feel free to reach out or apply regardless and we would love to chat.

Apply for this Job

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Powered by 

Privacy PolicySecurityVulnerability Disclosure

Can sponsor H1b transfer, but if they don't have one already it's more difficult

Our office is located in San Francisco and we have a strong preference for candidates based there for this role, but are open to exceptional remote candidates.

Similar Recruiters

Start your search today.