Founding Systems Engineer

📋 Description

• Improve speed, efficiency, quality, and reliability across core product workflows
• Profile and debug bottlenecks across app code, media workflows, and data movement
• Build benchmarking, regression tracking, and test harnesses for system behavior
• Improve concurrency, caching, batching, scheduling, and resource usage
• Design internal interfaces that simplify complex systems for the team
• Work close to product needs while making deep technical improvements under the hood

🎯 Requirements

• Strong systems engineering fundamentals — latency, throughput, memory, CPU, GPU, I/O, and efficiency
• Experience improving production software where performance matters
• Proficiency in C++ or similar low-level languages, plus higher-level backend work
• Ability to measure before optimizing and explain tradeoffs concretely
• Comfortable using AI tools to move faster and define problems; build clean abstractions
• Must be willing to work on-site in San Francisco, CA

🎁 Benefits

• Be part of a founding engineering team
• On-site collaboration in San Francisco, CA
• Competitive compensation and growth opportunities