5-7 years of experience in software engineering or a related field
Strong understanding of AI systems and product design
Proven ability to prototype and implement features rapidly
Experience in setting engineering standards for code quality and testing
Comfortable working across various abstraction layers from low-level systems to high-level UX
Responsibilities
Rapidly prototype new concepts and features to validate ideas
Ship AI-driven features from model interaction to user-facing workflows
Establish early engineering standards for testing and reliability
Translate ambiguous problem statements into concrete experiments
Lead architecture decisions alongside the CTO
Collaborate with diverse subject matter experts across industries
Benefits
Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
Paid time off (PTO)
Relocation support as needed
Full Job Description
About the Role
We're looking for a true generalized specialist with unusually strong technical and product taste. You will work directly with the CTO to design, prototype, and productionize AI-powered systems from first principles. This is a founding role with meaningful ownership over architecture, product direction, and engineering culture. It is suited for someone with strong fundamentals and comfortable operating across abstraction layers, from low-level system reasoning to high-level product UX.
What You'll Do
Rapidly prototype new concepts and features to validate ideas before full implementation.
Ship AI-driven features end to end, from model interaction to user-facing workflows.
Set early engineering standards around testing, reliability, and code quality.
Translate ambiguous problem statements into concrete experiments, constraints, and working systems.
Lead architecture decisions and long-term technical direction with the CTO.
Collaborate with a highly diverse group of subject matter experts and customers from various industries (banks, insurance, airlines, and more)
You are a Fit if...
You care deeply about your work and the product.
You are comfortable with uncertainty and enjoy figuring out what to build before how to build it.
You think in systems and feedback loops, not just features.
You can move fast and slow. Prototyping ideas in hours, then building enterprise-grade features to a high-quality bar.
You want to become world-class at AI engineering.
You have a bias for action and a track record of working in fast-paced environments with urgency.
Nice to Have
Strong testing intuition, including TDD and property-based testing.
Experience building and maintaining production-grade agentic or autonomous systems.
Exposure to legacy systems (especially mainframes or COBOL), compilers, program analysis techniques, or high-performance computing (HPC).
Familiarity with enterprise software constraints.
Logistics
Location: This role is in-person based in San Francisco, California.
Benefits: Hypercubic offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits, PTO, and relocation support as needed.
Sponsorship: Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor new H1B employment visas at this time. However, we can support H1B transfers and OPT.
