Founding Engineer
MorphoAI, London, England, GB
- Pay
- $40K–$110K / year
- Work type
- Not stated
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- Software engineering, Inference & ML systems, ML / AI engineering
- Posted
- May 11, 2025
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About the role
What you'll do
- As a founding engineer, you will work directly with the CTO and partially with the CEO on critical parts of the product roadmap to develop and deploy new critical new capabilities.
- Build and deploy products for SMB and enterprise customers that will have a huge, tangible impact on customers’ product development.
- Engage with customers to understand how users think about their problems and how we can develop usable products to solve them.
What you’ll bring
- 2+ years experience in hands-on software development of highly technical products or a PhD in a CS or robotics-related field (e.g. MechE, ECE, etc.)..
- Past experience in software development, ideally for deployed products, open-source projects, or large codebases
- Past experience working with control systems, Ideally having broad working knowledge in more than one of the following:
- Numerical optimization
- Generative AI development and its underlying core methodology
- Physical simulation and scientific computing
- Advanced robotic control methods
- Geometry processing representations and algorithms
- Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, from ideation to deployment to maintenance
- Intense curiosity, a desire to be continuously learning, grit, and an ability to communicate your technical ideas to a team
- Product-minded with bent towards ideating
- Proficiency in Python and leading ML frameworks such as Jax and PyTorch
Even better...
- Experience working at a startup as an early hire, and being in charge of deploying product and code
- Past roles that interface with end customers to influence software development
- Proficiency in additional programming languages including (e.g.) C++ and C#.
- Experience programming CUDA kernels for GPU-acceleration, and integration of those kernels with ML frameworks.
- Experience with visual computing domain-specific languages (DSLs) such as NVIDIA Warp or Taichi-Lang.
- Previous development work in Unity or NVIDIA Omniverse.
What we offer
We offer the following to full-time employees:
- 20 days off/ year
- Medical and dental benefits
- Health and wellness discount plan
- 401(k) account
- Factorio (and other games) gaming buddies
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