Founding Software Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage AI company building software that connects AI agents with real-world laboratory systems. You will own foundational infrastructure for experiment orchestration, agent connectivity, and distributed coordination across software and physical systems. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build systems that schedule and coordinate experiments across distributed labs. - Connect AI agents to experiments and instruments through reliable infrastructure. - Develop data infrastructure that captures system state, actions, measurements, failures, and provenance. - Design distributed systems to coordinate software, devices, and experiments reliably at scale. - Create developer tools and APIs for new workflows and integrations. - Debug and optimize across software, hardware, and physical systems. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 3 years of experience building production-grade software systems end to end, typically within a 3 to 8 year experience range. - Strong Python or Rust skills and a background building production backend or distributed systems at an early-stage startup. - Experience designing distributed systems involving APIs, networking, and asynchronous communication. - Strong software engineering fundamentals, high ownership, and comfort working through ambiguity. - Experience with robotics, hardware integration, physical AI, lab automation, embedded systems, ML infrastructure, or production ML systems is a plus. - Experience debugging across hardware, firmware, and software, or building data infrastructure, orchestration systems, developer tools, SDKs, or integration APIs is also valuable. - Biology experience is not required. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Salary range: $100,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The role may also be based in Zurich, Switzerland, or San Francisco, United States.