Software Engineer - Physical AI

Strativ Group; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Strativ Group in California is seeking a Software Engineer to join the founding engineering team and own core platform infrastructure. You will build the distributed systems backbone for real-time data ingestion, decision-making, and actuation across customer deployments.

Ideal candidates bring a strong backend foundation, hands-on experience with high-reliability systems, and a customer-facing mindset. You will work directly with operators and customers from day one.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience at elite companies.
• Strong backend foundation with distributed systems at scale.
• Customer-facing mindset and ability to own end-to-end systems.

Responsibilities

• Join the founding engineering team and own core platform infrastructure.
• Build the distributed systems backbone powering real-time data ingestion and actuation.
• Work directly with customers and operators from day one.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Customer-facing

Ownership

Job description

A exceptional early-stage team, founded by former executives and founding members from Palantir and Anduril, is building the AI brain for the world's industrial infrastructure. Backed by the early investors in Applied Intuition, Physical Intelligence, and Ramp, and assembled from top engineers across Google, Zipline, and beyond, this is a team that has built category-defining companies before and is doing it again. This is a rare opportunity to get in front of them early.

The company embeds directly into industrial facilities (manufacturing, chemicals, biologics, oil & gas etc) connecting to control systems to ingest data, close observability gaps, and autonomously adjust how production runs. They are currently in paid pilots with real customers, pricing discussions are underway, and first revenue is weeks away. This Software Engineer will join the founding engineering team and own core platform infrastructure building the distributed systems backbone that powers real-time data ingestion, decision-making, and actuation across customer deployments. Deep product involvement and direct customer exposure are baked into the role from day one.

The market they are targeting is a $227B industry growing toward $500B - one that has gone largely untouched by modern AI and still runs on rigid, decades-old control logic. The engineers who join now will have genuine influence over technical architecture and product direction at the moment it matters most.

Key experience:

• 3+ Years' experience in Software Engineering in elite companies (FAANG, Top tech orgs, Startups etc)
• Strong backend engineering foundation with hands-on experience building complex, high-reliability distributed systems at scale
• A customer-obsessed mindset - comfortable working directly with operators and customers to understand problems and shape solutions
• Experience in a high-bar engineering culture (Palantir, Anduril, Stripe, or equivalent) where ownership, rigour, and product instinct are the norm
• Full-stack capability is a plus, but the priority is exceptional backend depth and the ability to own systems end-to-end

This is a rare opportunity to join a founding engineering team taking on one of the largest and most underserved markets in the world - bringing genuine intelligence to the physical systems that underpin global production, and doing so alongside a team that has already proven it can build at the highest level.