Founding Engineer
About the Role
This is a founding engineering position at an early-stage AI/ML startup building systems that help hardware and electrical engineering firms move faster by turning decades of accumulated domain knowledge into intelligent, compounding technology. You will partner directly with the CTO to own the full technical stack, from architecture to production, inside real customer programs at defense and medical device companies.
What You'll Do
Design and build the core system architecture that integrates AI agents with CAD, CAE, and PLM tools while meeting the security requirements of defense and medical customers.
Own end-to-end engineering execution including design decisions, production delivery, reliability, observability, evaluation suites, regression testing, and on-call operations.
Ship your first production AI workflow into a live customer program, one that engineers use and depend on weekly.
Build evaluation and training loops that improve the system from simulation runs, test data, engineer corrections, and field outcomes, including reinforcement learning grounded in real physics.
Spend time embedded with engineers at partner companies to understand where the system fails against real deadlines, and
