Software Engineer, AI Platform – Greenfield AI for Chipmaking

Fab2; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

Visa Sponsorship

401(k) retirement plan

Paid Time Off

Weekly Learning & Development

Job summary

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup with offices in Austin, Lockhart, and San Francisco, seeks a Software Engineer to build the AI platform behind fab2. This greenfield role offers broad ownership across our AI stack, infrastructure, and agent systems that translate engineering knowledge into practical tools for teams.

You’ll work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data, shipping production systems and shaping how AI is used within fab2 and its operations.

Qualifications

• Production-grade software engineering experience shipping systems.
• Experience across frontend, backend, infrastructure and data.
• Ability to read, write, debug and reason about code.
• Strong product instincts and ownership.
• Excellent technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Build the infrastructure for using AI models across cloud providers and our own on-prem compute.
• Develop agents, shared skills, MCP servers, and sandboxed execution environments.
• Create evals and benchmarks to measure where agents work, where they fail, and how to improve them.
• Turn engineering knowledge and repeatable workflows into shared AI tools teams can build on.
• Develop AI systems for automated experimentation, defect detection, engineering analysis, and fab operations.
• Explore systems that can analyze results, propose what to do next, and eventually interact with physical equipment.
• Help shape how AI gets used across Fab2 and inside the fab.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Frontend/backend/infrastructure

AI tooling familiarity

Technical communication

Ownership

Tools

GPU compute infra

On-prem compute

AI agents

Job description

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup with offices in Austin, Lockhart, and San Francisco, seeks a Software Engineer to build the AI platform behind fab2. This greenfield role offers broad ownership across our AI stack, infrastructure, and agent systems that translate engineering knowledge into practical tools for teams.

You’ll work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data, shipping production systems and shaping how AI is used within fab2 and its operations.