SWE - AI

Location: On-site, New York City (NYC)

Join a stealth-mode, venture-backed applied-AI studio that is inventing the next wave of creative tooling for images, video, audio, and text. The team is tiny, founder-led, and resourced with world-class investors, abundant GPUs, and nearly two years of runway. As one of the first software engineers on the ground you will translate frontier AI research into polished, production-ready experiences used by millions.

What You’ll Do

• Transform research prototypes into reliable, scalable services that deliver real-time, multimodal creative output.
• Own projects end-to-end (ideation, architecture, implementation, launch) in close partnership with researchers and designers.
• Build distributed inference pipelines that serve billions of requests with sub-second latency and progressive rendering.
• Establish automated testing, benchmarking, and CI/CD to ensure every release meets exacting quality targets.
• Create intuitive user controls—from prompt-driven workflows to live editing handles—that unlock new forms of expression.
• Champion a first-principles engineering culture focused on performance measurement, elegant abstractions, and rapid iteration.

What You’ll Bring

• 5 + years designing and shipping production software (startup or high-impact projects preferred).
• Fluency in Python and modern C++ or Rust; deep comfort with PyTorch or JAX.
• Hands-on experience scaling distributed systems, GPUs/accelerators, and low-latency APIs.
• Evidence of creative problem-solving: competitive programming accolades, open-source leadership, or published research.
• Ability and enthusiasm to relocate to NYC and collaborate on-site at least three days per week.
• Growth mindset, bias for action, and appetite for the intensity of an early-stage environment.

Why You’ll Love It

• High-growth equity: Founding-level ownership.
• Top-of-market competitive base compensation.
• Visa sponsorship: O-1 / EB-1 fast-track available for exceptional talent.
• Dedicated compute resources for every engineer plus generous conference & learning budgets.
• Direct access to visionary founders with proven track records.
• Opportunity to shape the creative renaissance—better to own 1 % of a revolution than 0.001 % of an evolution.

Apply today and let’s explore how your code can ignite the next era of human creativity.

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