Software Engineer, Scientific AI & Autonomous Lab Platform

Riven Systems; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Riven Systems is seeking a Software Engineer to join a lean, interdisciplinary team working at the intersection of thermodynamics, machine learning, process modeling, and autonomous experimentation. You will deploy models, agents, and simulations in software that engineers can rely on.

We value experience spanning multiple roles and look for individuals who can move quickly through prototyping to customer-facing deployment while maintaining rigorous scientific standards and clear communication

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience building both backends and user interfaces 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.
• Ability to move quickly and rigorously using agentic engineering approaches.
• Clear interdisciplinary communication and the curiosity to quickly learn and execute in new domains.
• Ability to prioritize, execute, and collaborate with a high degree of agency, a willingness to be wrong, and the ambition to build something that has never existed before.
• Trust, humor, rigor, and an excitement to work in a scrappy, interdisciplinary early-stage environment.

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 and UI development

Validation at scale

Prototype to deployment

Agentic frameworks

Scientific curiosity

Agentic engineering

Interdisciplinary communication

Ownership and ambition

Team mindset

Job description

Riven Systems is seeking a Software Engineer to join a lean, interdisciplinary team working at the intersection of thermodynamics, machine learning, process modeling, and autonomous experimentation. You will deploy models, agents, and simulations in software that engineers can rely on.

We value experience spanning multiple roles and look for individuals who can move quickly through prototyping to customer-facing deployment while maintaining rigorous scientific standards and clear communication