AI Platform Engineer — Build Scalable AI Infra & Agents

Fab2; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Visa sponsorship

Paid time off

401(k) retirement plan

Weekly Learning & Development

Commuter benefits

Daily lunches

Job summary

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup with offices in Austin, TX, is seeking a Software Engineer to build the AI platform behind fab2. This greenfield role offers broad ownership across our AI stack, with you shaping infrastructure and agent systems that translate engineering knowledge and workflows into useful tools for teams across fab2.

You will collaborate across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data, shipping production systems and evaluating AI tooling; prior startup experience is a

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production systems.
• Comfortable working across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data.
• Effective with AI coding tools while still able to read, write, debug, and reason about code independently.
• Strong product instincts and an ability to turn ambiguous problems into working systems.
• Strong technical communication and a high degree of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build the infrastructure for using AI models across cloud providers and our own on-prem compute.
• Develop agents, shared skills, MCP servers, and sandboxed execution environments.
• Create evals and benchmarks to measure where agents work, where they fail, and how to improve them.
• Turn engineering knowledge and repeatable workflows into shared AI tools teams can build on.
• Develop AI systems for automated experimentation, defect detection, engineering analysis, and fab operations.
• Explore systems that can analyze results, propose what to do next, and eventually interact with physical equipment.
• Help shape how AI gets used across Fab2 and inside the fab.

Skills

Software engineering

Frontend

Backend

Infrastructure

Data

AI tooling

Technical communication

Ownership

Tools

GPU compute

On-prem compute

ML infra

Dev tools

Job description

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup with offices in Austin, TX, is seeking a Software Engineer to build the AI platform behind fab2. This greenfield role offers broad ownership across our AI stack, with you shaping infrastructure and agent systems that translate engineering knowledge and workflows into useful tools for teams across fab2.

You will collaborate across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data, shipping production systems and evaluating AI tooling; prior startup experience is a