Founding Software Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage engineering team building software that connects AI agents with real-world laboratory systems. You will own critical infrastructure for experiment orchestration, agent connectivity, and distributed coordination, helping shape a new category of software across digital and physical systems.

What You'll Do

• Build systems to schedule and coordinate experiments across distributed labs.
• Connect AI agents to experiments and instruments through reliable infrastructure.
• Develop data systems that capture 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

• Three or more years of experience building production-grade software systems end to end.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Rust, with familiarity across Rust or TypeScript systems development.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, networking, and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Experience as an engineer in an early-stage startup and comfort taking ownership in ambiguous environments.
• Background in robotics, hardware integration, lab automation, embedded systems, AI agents, or ML infrastructure is valuable.
• Ability to debug across hardware, firmware, and software layers is a plus. Biology experience is not required.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $100,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.