Software Engineer, Research Tooling

The role

You will build infrastructure and applications that enable researchers to iterate quickly, run experiments, and extract insights. This is a full-stack product-engineering role working directly with researchers and engineers.

What you will do

• Build and maintain full-stack applications and infrastructure for experiment setup, feedback collection, and results analysis
• Own complete product areas from user needs through design, implementation, and iteration
• Create reusable platforms and tools that speed up new research applications
• Partner with research teams to turn workflows and pain points into intuitive interfaces and abstractions

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
• Must be able to work in person at the Palo Alto office

Nice to have

• Experience building tools, platforms, or infrastructure for technical users
• Experience shipping full-stack products and owning systems from user interface to storage or services, using technologies such as TypeScript and React alongside Node, Python, or Go
• Experience building dense, data-facing tools such as transcript viewers, diffing systems, review queues, observability products, or operational dashboards
• Product instincts: identifying the right problems to solve and moving from concept to working prototype with ease
• Ability to move quickly under ambiguity, collaborate closely with researchers and domain experts, and take open-ended problems from rough need to reliable product
• Ability to jump into new problems, quickly develop domain expertise, and independently drive impactful projects from conception to delivery

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• Short & long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Various other discounts and perks

About the company

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. They are building the full Super Intelligence stack, from Colossus supercomputers to Grok models and applications.