Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Hardware)

Highlights

• Build agents that accelerate production of frontier AI tokens.
• Embed with hardware team to turn bottlenecks into daily-used tools.
• Own special projects directly with founders on critical milestones.

What they offer

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
• $2,500 per month housing subsidy for those living within walking distance of the office
• Relocation support to San Jose
• Wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
• Daily lunch and dinner in office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
• Significant equity

Ideal candidate

High-agency builder who thrives in ambiguity and owns problems end to end with strong product sense. Excited by intense, founder-adjacent work accelerating hardware development with AI agents.

Requirements

• Have at least 1-5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup
• Have built agents for complex, multi-step tasks that people depend on, beyond calling an API: tool design, long-context management, evals, and failure analysis
• Are a strong software engineer who has built reliable systems others depend on, such as distributed systems, experiment infrastructure, or developer tooling
• Use coding agents heavily, read their transcripts closely, and change the system when an agent is confidently wrong
• Have high agency in unfamiliar domains
• Have product sense, design taste, and extreme attention to detail