Company
Engineering
FoundingSoftwareEngineer
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“Founding Software Engineer. Skills: LLM systems, Full-stack development, Scalable architecture. Partner with founders. Deliver user-centric solutions”
What You'll Achieve.
Scale product to millions of users
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
CS fundamentals, Hands-on LLM experience, Startup/early-stage company experience, Ownership mindset
Nice to Have
Experience designing LLM evaluation frameworks, Experience implementing LLM evaluation frameworks
What You'll Do.
Partner with founders
Deliver user-centric solutions
Own end-to-end development
Design scalable architecture
Build agentic LLM systems
Incorporate tool-calling
Incorporate multi-step reasoning
Incorporate MCP protocols
Design LLM evaluation frameworks
Optimize LLM inference performance
Optimize cost efficiency
Develop motion graphics engine
Drive architectural decisions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with founders
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE We're building an AI motion design platform and this is our founding engineering hire. You'll work closely with the founders to shape the technical foundation, own end-to-end development, and help scale a product designed to empower millions of users with fast, high-quality animations. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Partner with the founders to deliver user-centric product solutions from concept to production. - Own end-to-end development of full-stack features with scalable architecture design. - Build and optimize agentic LLM systems incorporating tool-calling, multi-step reasoning, and MCP protocols. - Design comprehensive LLM evaluation frameworks with automated benchmarks, human-in-the-loop validation, and A/B testing. - Optimize LLM inference performance, cost efficiency, and latency across multiple model architectures. - Develop a high-performance motion graphics engine. - Drive architectural decisions that support scalable growth to millions of users. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Strong CS fundamentals. - Hands-on experience building or integrating large language models (LLMs), tool-calling, multi-step reasoning, and MCP protocols. - Experience designing and implementing LLM evaluation frameworks with automated benchmarks, human-in-the-loop validation, and A/B testing. - Demonstrated ability to deliver end-to-end full-stack features with scalable architecture. - Startup/early-stage company experience with an ownership mindset. - Proficiency with the full tech stack: TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, PostgreSQL, GCP, AWS. - Proficiency in optimizing LLM inference performance, cost efficiency, and latency across multiple model architectures. LOCATION Berlin, Germany (office-based)
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