Entrepreneur in Residence: AI-Driven Engineering & Spinout

Subcritical Systems Inc; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Direct access to leadership

Job summary

Subcritical Systems, Inc. in Austin, Texas is seeking an Entrepreneur in Residence who thinks like a founder, builds like an engineer, and works across software, AI, and deep-tech hardware on a pivotal energy project.

You will identify high-leverage software problems, build AI-driven workflows, and extend our internal agent architecture, aiming for faster CAD reviews and at least one spin-out thesis within 12 months. A strong track record of shipping real tech is essential.

Qualifications

• You have built something real: a company, product, or platform used by domain experts at scale.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals across Python/TypeScript, clean architecture, version control, testing, production-grade code.
• Demonstrated experience building with LLMs: prompts, RAG, agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex) and API integration.
• Comfort with geometry, spatial data, or engineering file formats (CAD, STEP, mesh, simulation outputs).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy AI-assisted CAD review pipelines parsing geometry, surfacing design violations.
• Build LLM-powered tooling that integrates with CAD environments to accelerate docs, BOMs, and design changes.
• Develop automated workflows to generate CAD models and drawings from specs and vendor data.
• Own reliability of design automation pipelines that gate construction schedules.
• Extend internal AI agent pipelines across engineering, operations, and deployment workstreams.
• Build agentic workflows for procurement analysis and vendor compliance.
• Develop AI tooling for accelerator subsystems commissioning, including anomaly detection and parameter sweeps.

Skills

Founder/CTO

Software engineering

LLM development

CAD/geometry familiarity

Effective communication

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Fusion 360

SolidWorks

Python

Job description

Subcritical Systems, Inc. in Austin, Texas is seeking an Entrepreneur in Residence who thinks like a founder, builds like an engineer, and works across software, AI, and deep-tech hardware on a pivotal energy project.

You will identify high-leverage software problems, build AI-driven workflows, and extend our internal agent architecture, aiming for faster CAD reviews and at least one spin-out thesis within 12 months. A strong track record of shipping real tech is essential.