Founding Engineer (Generalist)

Firebender; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Firebender in San Francisco is looking for a dedicated engineer to build innovative coding agents and manage infrastructure to enhance coding productivity. Candidates should be prepared for intense challenges as they strive to tackle complex coding tasks.

Ideal applicants possess a B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent, along with 0-3 years of software experience. This is a demanding role requiring a strong work ethic and the ability to adapt quickly in a collaborative environment, aiming to support a vast array of engineers leveraging AI.

Qualifications

• Must be able to articulate an impressive engineering feat.
• 0-3 years of software experience preferred.
• Willingness to work extremely hard with a tight-knit team.

Responsibilities

• Build and iterate on multi-agent strategies for solving coding problems.
• Manage infrastructure of the H100 cluster and implement improvements.
• Gather feedback from engineers and deploy quickly.

Skills

Software development

Kotlin or Android engineering

Rapid learning

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Job description

Firebender processes tens of billions of tokens per day for the thousands of concurrent coding agents, and auto complete model. Every month hundreds of millions of lines of code are added to codebases of companies ranging from startups to fortune 500.

Building a great coding agent is likely the most valuable technical challenges to solve right now, and we’re already making great progress on this.

Responsibilities

• Build/iterate on agentic evaluation, and discovery multi agent strategies to solve harder and harder coding problems on large codebases
• Manage infrastructure of our h100 cluster, and implement run time improvements like speculative decoding, kv-cache tuning, etc.
• Talk to engineers to gather feedback, and implement/deploy quickly with little to no hand holding

Qualifications

• Can articulate an impressive engineering feat that you’ve accomplished that shows you can build quickly
• 0-3 years of software experience/B.S computer science is nice to have, but not hard requirement
• Kotlin or Android engineering experience is a plus, but not a requirement
• Willingness to work extremely hard in a tight knit team. We take our work seriously, and to set clear expectations, this is not a place for work life balance. There are plenty of other large companies with long management chains that can offer this, but we cannot with such a small team. Its our responsibility to do right by the engineers that use our tool and believed in us early on; this requires immense effort. If pushing yourself and intense challenges are exciting to you, then we’d love to work with you

This Is a Good Fit If

• You love building fast and solving hard problems
• Helping thousands of engineers leverage AI is exciting
• Believe in automating mundane engineering tasks
• You are not afraid to work hard in-person and grow technically with a team of dense talent
• You learn quickly, and not tied to any specific technology