Founding Software Architect

6 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Pear VC Full time
About Us

Adapt is revolutionizing the AI landscape by tackling latency, a critical challenge in current AI systems. Our mission is to build the infrastructure for real-time AI applications in gaming, AR/VR, robotics, and more.

Our team is comprised of experienced researchers and engineers with a collective background from esteemed institutions like MIT, Google, and Microsoft. We value empathy, deep technical knowledge, and autonomy, and our team is based in San Francisco.

Role Description

As a Founding Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the company's technical direction and contributing to the architectural roadmap. You will have the opportunity to build and scale our GPU infrastructure for real-time AI performance, engage directly with our customers, and contribute to the growth of our engineering and product teams.

This role requires a proactive individual who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with frequently shifting priorities. You will be instrumental in supporting and growing our engineering and product teams, and your technical leadership will be crucial in driving business impact.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance. We are committed to providing support to immigrant workers throughout their journey.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design of resilient, large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong understanding of public cloud features, including SDN, block storage, distributed file systems, and identity management
  • Strong understanding of IaC technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, Terraform, and Firecracker
  • Strong understanding of standard Observability tools, such as Grafana and Prometheus

Nice-to-haves include prior experience working on GPUs/CUDA, end-to-end ML application development, and data engineering.



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