Founding Software Engineer - Scientific AI Platform

Riven Systems; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Riven Systems in New York, NY is seeking a Software Engineer to join a lean, interdisciplinary team. You will work with experts in thermodynamics, ML, and process modeling to deploy models, agents, and simulations that engineers rely on.

You will own the backend that trains and serves computational models, build interfaces for customers, and establish standards for reproducible, versioned code. The role covers the full lifecycle from prototyping to deployment in a fast-paced, scrappy

Qualifications

• 4+ years building backends and UIs for scientific or engineering software.
• Experience implementing validation at scale for large bodies of computational output.
• Comfort across the project lifecycle, from early technical prototyping to customer facing deployment.
• Familiarity with architecting agentic frameworks and leveraging agents to solve challenging technical problems.
• Deep scientific and technical curiosity and the ability to quickly absorb a new domain.

Responsibilities

• Manage the backend that trains, manages, and serves our computational models.
• Implement customer facing artifacts and interfaces for interacting with our models and results.
• Build the tool APIs, machine-readable errors, sandboxing, and observability that let agents operate the platform.
• Set engineering standards for a scientific codebase: numerical testing, reproducibility, and versioning that covers models and data as well as source.
• Implement validation at scale: versioned reference data, distributed test suites, and statistical treatment of error.

Skills

Backend development

Frontend development

Machine learning

Scientific software

Prototyping

Interdisciplinary communication

Agile methodologies

Problem-solving

Tools

Python

REST APIs

Docker

GPU programming

LLM tooling

Job description

Riven Systems in New York, NY is seeking a Software Engineer to join a lean, interdisciplinary team. You will work with experts in thermodynamics, ML, and process modeling to deploy models, agents, and simulations that engineers rely on.

You will own the backend that trains and serves computational models, build interfaces for customers, and establish standards for reproducible, versioned code. The role covers the full lifecycle from prototyping to deployment in a fast-paced, scrappy