Founding Software Engineer

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.