Software Engineer

Root Access • New York, NY

8d

About The Position

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join the founding team to own the core agent and data systems development. This is an intense role that will be fun for the right person. You will have a lot of autonomy and build across the stack.
Who You Are
You’re a Software Engineer who has a strong grasp on building systems and handling large amounts of data, with a desire to get hands-on with advanced AI/ML work.
What You’ll Build
Implement the core agent architecture (state, tools, workflows, evaluations)
Lead the infrastructure development on AWS / GCP and other cloud providers
Contribute across both the backend and frontend of the product
Design and maintain data ingestion pipelines that turn messy inputs into structured, usable context
Integrate LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval infrastructure into production systems
Build guardrails, evals, and observability to ensure reliability, performance, and cost control
Work closely with founders and product to translate real user needs into shipped functionality

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a backend, platform, or infrastructure engineer
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, APIs, async systems, and distributed services
• Experience building production data pipelines, ETL systems, or search/retrieval infrastructure
• Strong capability working with Python and TypeScript in production

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a startup building a product
• Background in developer tools, infra, or technical products
• Experience handling unstructured or domain-specific data

Responsibilities

• Implement the core agent architecture (state, tools, workflows, evaluations)
• Lead the infrastructure development on AWS / GCP and other cloud providers
• Contribute across both the backend and frontend of the product
• Design and maintain data ingestion pipelines that turn messy inputs into structured, usable context
• Integrate LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval infrastructure into production systems
• Build guardrails, evals, and observability to ensure reliability, performance, and cost control
• Work closely with founders and product to translate real user needs into shipped functionality

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed