Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA
Full-time
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About the role

cmux is a native macOS terminal built on Ghostty, designed for running multiple AI coding agents in parallel. Hundreds of thousands of developers use cmux to drive their agentic coding workflows.

Check us out at cmux.com and on GitHub.

We're hiring talented founding engineers to help us build the future of coding with AI.

What you'll do

- Build frontier devtools across the stack: cmux macOS (Swift/AppKit), cmux TUI (Rust), cmux Windows/Linux (C++/Chromium), cmux iOS, cmux Cloud, subrouter (Go), chatmux, and more

- Help invent the most useful product for developers to do work with AI

- Own products and features end to end, including user feedback loops

- Dogfood, test, and verify constantly; use cmux to build cmux

Who we're looking for

No hard requirements. We want talented builders from any background.

Things that make us extra excited:

- You use 10B+ tokens a day

- All-rounders and creative problem solvers

- Great design taste and care for the craft

- Swift/AppKit, C++, Rust, Go, or Chromium experience

- Open-source maintainers, former founders, people who ship complete products

- Sending cmux PRs for us to review or demoing custom cmux plugins / workflows

Details

- Compensation: 130k - 170k + 0.5% - 1.5% equity

- Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance

- Location: San Francisco

About cmux

Open source applied AI lab building next-gen devtools

Other roles at cmux

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Job details

Salary

$130,000 - $170,000

Equity

0.5% - 1.5%

Location

San Francisco, CA

Experience

0+ years

Company

Namecmux
IndustryB2B
Team Size3

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

WT

Wesley Tjangnaka

Co-founder

Lawrence Chen

Lawrence Chen

Co-founder & CTO

LinkedIn
Austin Wang

Austin Wang

Co-founder & CEO

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.