Founding Software Engineer (Ssr) Hybrid, Bangalore

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📍 Bangalore, KA

💼 Hybrid, Remote-International

📊 Seed Stage

🏢 AI

💵 $500K Funded

👥 10 Employees

⏱️ 2+ years experience

• Mission: Provide frontier AI labs and startups with novel, high-quality human-generated datasets and experiment infrastructure that materially improve model reasoning and agent performance.
• Vision: Become the default data and evaluation layer for frontier models and agents, accelerating capabilities through rigorous experiments and exceptional human data.
• Culture: Talent-dense, high-velocity, ownership-first, research-meets-build, pragmatic, collaborative, low-ego, metrics-driven, tight-knit with rapid iteration

• Design, build, and maintain RL environments and evaluation harnesses for LLMs/agents
• Operate distributed experiments on Kubernetes with strong observability and cost controls
• Develop Kafka-based human-in-the-loop and annotator analytics pipelines
• Improve reliability and UX of Next.js dashboards for internal and partner users
• Create well-documented APIs and internal platforms used by research/product/design
• Ensure data integrity, reproducibility, and experiment traceability end to end
• Own incident response and performance tuning across services and jobs

• Next.js
• React
• Node.js
• Python
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• AWS
• GCP
• Kafka
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• PostgreSQL
• Bash/Linux
• CI/CD
• gRPC/REST APIs
• Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK)

The ideal candidate for this role has a background working with US-based VC-backed startups or fast-growing non-US startups. 

They have experience working with US companies and come from product-based companies, not dev shops. They are a senior, autonomous engineer who is comfortable in a remote-first, async-friendly environment.