Founding Product Engineer
Grit
Product
Posted 6+ months ago
Founding Product Engineer
Our Mission
We believe there is a better way: we’re building AI bots that automatically maintain software through a combination of static analysis, our own query language, and machine learning.
Founders Fund and Abstract Ventures led our $7M seed round and we have shipped thousands of migrations for customers like Cloudflare and OpenAI.
We’re looking for passionate engineers who are excited to make a big impact in a small team.
Learn more about Grit’s culture and hiring process here.
About the role
As a founding engineer at Grit, you will work on developing our end-to-end AI agents for software maintenance. You’ll be working on interfaces for AI to make changes and for humans to collaborate on those changes.
What’s the best way to present thousands of AI changes to humans for rapid review?
How can we discover the dependencies and requirements for running unit tests on a repository, even if there’s no configuration written?
How do we efficiently fork a running cloud instance to try two alternative migration strategies in parallel?
How can we build a caching file system to make it faster to check out repositories on new machines, without keeping permanent copies of customer code?
How do we stream results back to customers with minimal latency to allow live monitoring and intervention?
If this role sounds interesting to you, let us know here. Even if you’re not quite sure, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Responsibilities
Improve our cloud execution environment for running customer source code
Prototype new UI interactions with React, Tailwind, and Next.js
Develop APIs in Rust and TypeScript
Design new interfaces for analyzing source code and managing the software development lifecycle.
Qualifications
Demonstrated excellence with at least one programming language, ideally TypeScript or Rust
Execution-driven mindset: you love shipping.
Interest in programming languages (ex. compilers) or machine learning is a plus, but not required. You’ll learn more on the job!
Comfortable working in low-structure environments and navigating unknown unknowns.
Why you should join us
Build a meaningful product to solve a tangible problem for companies.
Ownership in all senses of the word: significant equity upside, direct impact on product vision, and contact with users.
Solve your own problems. We dogfood our own product and you can build the ideal developer experience as you work.
Explore frontiers in programming languages and machine learning.
We have a long runway and can offer a competitive base salary ($150-250k).
Location Policy
We are hiring in-person in San Francisco.
How to apply
If this role sounds interesting to you, let us know here. Even if you’re not quite sure, we encourage you to apply anyway.
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