Member of Technical Staff - AI

A top SF-based startup is looking for a strong software engineer to join their growing technology team on a full-time basis. This company builds autonomous AI systems that operate factories. The company connects fragmented systems inside manufacturing facilities into a unified data layer, then deploys AI agents that optimize decisions across entire operations for profit. They are looking for a Member of Technical Staff with 2+ years of experience to join an early-stage team. You should be a high-ownership, independent technical builder who is comfortable shipping to messy, real-world environments — whether your background is in systems programming, agent orchestration, quantitative work, or founding your own company. What will you be doing? • Owning and shipping entire customer-facing features from ideation through deployment — e.g., building collaborative AI-assisted chat interfaces for factory operators • Building and extending AI agent orchestration systems that optimize factory scheduling, dispatch work to operators, and drive indirect labor costs toward zero • Working with the platform's unified data layer that connects legacy factory systems (ERPs, MES, PLCs, spreadsheets) into real-time operational intelligence • Applying context engineering, agent harnesses, small model training, and RL techniques to deploy AI that makes high-leverage decisions in production environments • Collaborating directly with customers and deploying features that have immediate, visible impact on factory throughput and profitability Tech stackPython, C, AI/ML, LLMs, Agent Orchestration, Reinforcement Learning, Context Engineering, PostgreSQL, Data Pipelines, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)