Founding Software Engineer

At Blitzpanel, we’re building the fastest way to design and build industrial control panels.We’re hiring an early team of high-agency builders who:Are irrationally curiousBuild and tinker for funDon’t wait for permissionChallenge and respect one anotherCompensation: Founding Software Engineer: $120k - $180k, 0.75%-3%What you’ll doBuild and own our internal automation stack: quote → BOM → drawings → build packetOwn our in-house CAD solution: https://youtu.be/0nOVBryHNggIntegrate across systems: CAD exports, part libraries, pricing, quoting, work instructionsBuild simple, fast UI that operators/designers actually enjoy usingWork directly with founder and shop to iterate quickly based on realityUse AI tools aggressively to move 3–10x fasterBuild hardware interfaces to machine toolsTechnical requirementsComfortable building full-stack softwareStrong in React + TypeScriptStrong in PythonComfortable with systems / performance work when needed (C++ is a plus)Can work with messy data and imperfect inputs3+ years experienceNote: If there’s a better tech stack for this work, you can implement it! As a founding engineer, you can steer the company in what you believe is best.Education (flexible)BS: CS / CE / SE or another comparable engineering degreeStrong portfolio and shipped work beats credentialsBonus pointsYou’ve shipped production software that real users depend onYou’ve built internal tools and automation for ops or manufacturingYou’ve built CAD or diagram editors beforeYou’ve built scalable data pipelines, ingesting large amounts of unstructured and structured scraped dataYou love working with hardware and have tinkered with hardware products