Founding Software Engineer

Skills: Node.js, Python, React, SQL Overview: Athina is building an IDE to enable the development of AI-powered products. We are on a mission to build the new stack for AI product teams. This means defining how teams will prototype, experiment, train, evaluate and monitor GenAI products. The next decade will enable AI-powered products and features that are radically different from the software we have been building until now. This is an open-domain unsolved problem, and we’re looking for tinkerers, hackers, and creatives who want to build the toolkit for the next decade of software. The role: Minimum requirements: - Min. 5+ years of experience as a SWE - Strong frontend + backend skills (if you're more frontend or backend-leaning, that's fine!) - Experience creating complex software systems from the ground up - A strong IC who is a self-starter and can work independently Ideal requirements: - You are excited about GenAI and are tinkering and hacking - You are excited about the challenge of figuring out unsolved problems - Based in SF, or willing to relocate (on-site but flexible working) - Start-up or founding engineer experience is ideal - Experience with AI is a plus but not a hard requirement What we look for: We're a small team, so we’re looking for someone who can tackle complex problems end-to-end. The job is not to write code. We are looking for someone to create a product that solves the problem and delights users! What you'll be building: GenAI development is an open-domain problem and requires a lot of creativity, tinkering and experimentation. We require a strong work ethic, and in return we promise you the same. Problems we're solving: - How to generate, curate and annotate data for training and testing - How to evaluate complex AI products - How to prototype and test complex AI agents Stack: - Postgres DB - (Node.js + Typescript) API server - (Python) Workers for running evaluations and background jobs - (Python) Open-source evaluations library - (React.js + Typescript) Frontend

• Min. 5+ years of experience as a SWE
• Strong frontend + backend skills (if you're more frontend or backend-leaning, that's fine!)
• Experience creating complex software systems from the ground up
• A strong IC who is a self-starter and can work independently