Senior / Staff Software Engineer
Transparent Search Group•San Mateo, CA
•Hybrid
About The Position
Autoscience Institute builds AI systems that autonomously conduct AI research. It announced the first AI agent to autonomously create peer-reviewed literature (ICLR 2025 Workshops), and its commercial product Mira is deployed at top-three global quant trading firms, delivering 20%+ model performance gains. Founded in 2024, Autoscience has about 10 people and raised $14M from General Catalyst, Perplexity Fund, S32, MaC Ventures and Toyota Ventures, with a Series A in progress.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Ownership of complex projects end to end
- Excellent production Python
- Backend and ML infrastructure experience (GCP a plus)
- Ability to work in the San Mateo office 4 days a week
Responsibilities
- Build and optimize the recursive self-improvement pipeline for Mira.
- Work on the agentic discovery search system and the post-training stack used for customer-specific models.
- Write high-performance Python that speeds up autonomous research workflows.
- Turn experimental ideas into production systems with researchers and engineers.
- Shape architecture and technical direction.
Benefits
- competitive equity
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Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
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