Founding Systems Engineer – AI for Scientific Automation

United States Digital Space LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Founding Engineer in NYC to build AI-for-science tooling. This onsite, full-time role offers autonomy, high ownership, and the chance to influence the stack from agents to runtime.

You'll join a small, well-funded team and work directly with the founders across Python, Rust, and TypeScript, tackling hard, low-level systems and ML infrastructure to unlock experiments at scale.

Responsibilities

• Be one of the first engineers, work directly with founders across the stack.
• Own low-level systems, ML infra, and runtime integration.

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Founding Engineer in NYC to build AI-for-science tooling. This onsite, full-time role offers autonomy, high ownership, and the chance to influence the stack from agents to runtime.

You'll join a small, well-funded team and work directly with the founders across Python, Rust, and TypeScript, tackling hard, low-level systems and ML infrastructure to unlock experiments at scale.