About the role
We are looking for a Software Engineer with 2+ years of experience to join a small, elite team building AI systems that autonomously conduct AI research. You'll be working at the frontier of automated scientific discovery at a company that has already shipped the first AI agent to autonomously create peer-reviewed literature. This is a rare opportunity to join an 8-person team backed by $14M in seed funding from General Catalyst, Toyota Ventures, and others, with strong enterprise traction among top-tier quant trading firms. You must be a strong Python engineer who can write pristine production code and thrive in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.
What will you be doing?
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Building and maintaining backend infrastructure for Mira, the company's commercial AI research agent platform
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Writing high-quality production Python code to improve recursive self-improvement capabilities and system performance
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Collaborating cross-functionally with researchers and engineers on agentic discovery search systems and post-training stacks
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Contributing to ML infrastructure, observability, and performance optimization of customer-integrated AI systems
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Operating as a generalist engineer at an early-stage startup — owning problems end-to-end from design through deployment
About Autoscience Institute
We build AI systems that autonomously conduct AI research. We just announced the first AI agent to autonomously create peer reviewed literature (ICLR 2025 Workshops).
We recently raised $14M from General Catalyst, Perplexity Fund, S32, MaC Ventures and Toyota Ventures.
Required skills
Other roles at Autoscience Institute
Job details
Salary
$200,000 - $250,000
Location
San Mateo, United States
Experience
2+ years
Funding
Total raised
$14M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
