Founding Engineer: Ship AI-Driven Hardware Tools

Origamics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Origamics AI is hiring its founding engineers to join the founders and build the core platform from day one. You’ll own the product architecture, services and storage with direct path to production.

You’ll shape the tech stack, integrate with customers’ tools, turn physics-informed models into production systems, and help a tiny team scale to deliver robust hardware design software. This is a founding role with high ownership.

Qualifications

• Have taken something from zero to one before and you want to do it again — this time with the equity, ownership, and title to match what you’re actually doing.
• Understand the real trade‑offs in storage, compute, and system architecture and optimize for the problem in hand vs the best theoretical solution.
• Have a good approach in build vs buy decisions and understand software maintenance costs, and scaling complexities.
• Have experience with —* or are eager to grow into —* agentic systems: dedicated containers, multi‑agent orchestration, agent review, multi‑model task distribution.
• Like the idea of getting fluent, fast, in building foundational models (not just wrappers) alongside a PhD‑heavy research team, even though it’s not your background yet.

Responsibilities

• The product architecture, services and storage solutions end‑to‑end, with nobody between your decision and production.
• Technical stack and productivity tools, selecting key vendors in our technical stack and contributing to the developer flow, from agentic systems to reliable CI processes.
• Integrations with engineering tools and services our customers already run, hardened enough that switching to us feels like nothing changed.
• Turning our research team’s physics‑informed models into production systems engineers trust with real boards.
• Design the agentic engineering practices this company runs on internally —* the tooling and workflows that let a two‑person team ship like a twenty‑person team.
• Set the engineering bar for every hire that comes after you, because for a while, we will be the bar.

Job description

Origamics AI is hiring its founding engineers to join the founders and build the core platform from day one. You’ll own the product architecture, services and storage with direct path to production.

You’ll shape the tech stack, integrate with customers’ tools, turn physics-informed models into production systems, and help a tiny team scale to deliver robust hardware design software. This is a founding role with high ownership.