Software Engineer

About the role Skills: ML, Python, React, TypeScript, Distributed Systems Strategic Software Engineer (Full-Stack) – AI Platform | 2–5 YOE | Ex-Founders Preferred Location: In-person (Palo Alto, CA) Type: Full-time | High equity + salary | Ground-floor role You’ll also be working directly with Kumar Srivastava, CTO and ML lead to execute the platform including backend, APIs, LLM workflows, and user-facing interfaces. Kumar has built AI & ML powered enterprise & consumer software for 20+ years. You will be on the fast track to learn how to design, build, scale and operate enterprise-class AI systems. This will be a hands-on experience that you cannot get from watching youtube videos, reading blogs or following industry experts. 50,000 food and beverage products you consume are harmful. We’re here to fix that by enabling CPGs to develop better, healthier and better options using our AI platform - world’s first. You’ll be a critical force in shaping our platform. You will be a key factor in defining how it leverages defensible and purpose-built AI for the CPG industry (Next release of GPT won’t kill us!). You will be exposed to the best-in-class AI algorithms and techniques including LLMs, AI agents and proprietary ML. We have a high-agency culture: Weekly Customer Value: Every week we ship something that customers can see and use Direct Customer Interaction: Engineers talk directly to customers, no translation layers Fast Decision Making: We debate Monday, decide immediately, execute Tuesday-Friday Results Over Process: We care about customer impact, not perfect engineering practices We should talk if you’re: You have a genuine curiosity about agentic product experiences and are excited about understanding the impact of AI on engineering users. You’re a previous founder or founding engineer. You have built something from scratch that people use or pay for. You’re unusually obsessed with hard problems. Your current skills or even what you've done before is less i