Software Engineer
What to ExpectYour role is to build and run the services behind our customer-facing web application and our internal platform, along with the control plane that connects a fleet of production machines to both.
That is platform work and machine work in one job: typed services in TypeScript and Python over MongoDB, identity and observability around them, a gateway and scheduler that carry an order to a finished unit, and the Vue 3 application customers order through.
You will own the reliability of that platform: tests at every tier, load and soak work, incident follow-through, the delivery pipeline onto a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster, and the MCP toolkits agents drive the same APIs through.
Every role works with our AI systems daily. What can be deterministic, must be. You need no AI background; we prefer people without one. We hire for your knowledge and experience in the field first, so you can steer the ship; the tooling is a learning curve we expect you to take on.
We work on-site in El Segundo. This is hard work, but you will be rewarded with equity in a company we believe will become one of the world's most valuable.
What You'll Do:
Typed services in TypeScript on Express and Python on FastAPI, with queues and workers
Data modeling in MongoDB: schemas, migrations, indexes, query performance, idempotency and consistency
Identity and access: single sign-on over OAuth2 and OpenID Connect, sessions, role-based access control
Device connectivity: a gateway over WebSockets and mutual TLS, telemetry ingestion, remote firmware deployment
Orchestration and scheduling: the job state machine, retries and escalation, priority, slot timing, preemption
The customer web application in Vue 3: file upload and parsing, ordering, payment, accounts
Observability and incident response: structured logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, load and soak testing
Delivery and tooling: containers, continuous integration, Helm and Kubernetes, and MCP toolkits for agents
What You'll Bring A degree in computer science, software engineering or computer engineering, or equivalent experience
Hands-on experience shipping and operating production services in TypeScript or Python, against a database you designed
Fluent with queues, state machines, idempotency, retries and back-pressure, and able to explain a failure mode
Comfortable across the stack, from a Vue 3 front end to the data behind it
The judgment to take an outage back to its root cause from logs and metrics
Ready to build first versions and write them so the engineers after you can run them
Bonus:
embedded or firmware experience, telemetry at scale, or running Kubernetes in production
Expected Compensation$100k to $250k base salary, plus equity
Equity participation in a high-growth startup
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) with company matching
Bonus for living within 5 miles of our El Segundo facility
On-site work with rare work-from-home exceptions
Merit-based organization where contribution drives reward