As a Founding Staff Software Engineer at Onton, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the engineering foundation and scaling the platform to support over 1 billion searches per year. You'll work across the full stack to build user-critical features and help scale a neurosymbolic AI agent that enhances decision-making for millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Join Onton as a Founding Engineer and set the strategic foundation for our Engineering Team
- Design, scope, implement, and deploy user-critical features
- Work with a dynamic team of other engineers, AI researchers, and product designers tackling cutting-edge problems to create a seamless, cohesive experience for users
- Build across every layer of the stack — web app, container, infrastructure, etc
- Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and techniques to continually enhance our system, yourself, and the rest of the team
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of relevant engineering experience, preferably in fast-scaling companies
- Be a self-directed generalist, capable of picking up any engineering problem and solving it, no matter how tedious
- Quickly and iteratively ship code that is correct, robust, scalable, and maintainable
- Exercise exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Enjoy giving high-level abstractions low-level performance
- Have functional programming experience
- Have worked with NLP and ML models before and understand their capabilities and limitations
Technical Stack
neurosymbolic AI, graph engine, natural language processing (NLP), machine learning models, object detection, inference engine, multimodal search, statistical parsing, symbolic parsing, RedisGraph, diffusion models
Benefits
- Relocation compensation offered
- Tenure system: after one year, transition to fully remote (operating on Pacific Time)
- Onsite interviews and full-time in-person collaboration foster creativity, spontaneous collaboration, and strong relationships
- Hybrid work model: 3 days a week in San Francisco office
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — San Francisco (Jackson Square) — 3 days a week in office; after one year, eligible for fully remote work if operating on Pacific Time
Onton is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans during our application process.
