About the role
Roundtable provides frictionless, continual human verification. Our Proof of Human product identifies AI agents and fraud in real time to safeguard the integrity of online insights, traffic, and spend. We’re looking for an exceptional engineer to join our team. This engineer will work on full-stack web development and research, with a focus on backend and cloud infrastructure.
What you’ll do:
- Architect and Develop: Design and build scalable backend infrastructure (AWS, Node, Python) optimized for handling millions of sessions per minute with minimal latency.
- Lead Feature Development: Own end-to-end delivery of key product features, from initial concept through deployment and support.
- Technical Roadmapping: Directly influence engineering strategy and decisions through close collaboration with the technical team.
- Partner Cross-functionally: Work closely with the rest of the team to deliver features aligned with business objectives.
- Cutting Edge Research: You also may assist the team in writing scientific articles summarizing our work for publication at top venues (e.g. Science, NeurIPS, ICML).
Who you are:
- 3+ years of experience in software development would be ideal.
- Strong backend web development skills with experience going from problem to deployment.
- Proficiency in both web development (Javascript, Node.js) and Python.
- Experience building cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) at scale.
- Excited by working on a small team where your contributions have an outsized impact.
- Strong quantitative background and an eagerness to learn. Research experience is a plus.
If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing, cutting-edge AI security company that is protecting the future of online integrity, we’d love to talk.
About Roundtable
Roundtable is a research and deployment company building the proof-of-human layer in digital identity. Roundtable seeks to produce high-impact research and to productize this research in bot detection, fraud prevention, and continuous authentication.
Roundtable was founded in 2023 by two Princeton PhD scientists – Mayank Agrawal and Matt Hardy. They have published in Science, PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, and Psychological Review and are backed by Y Combinator and Brickyard Ventures.
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$120,000 - $150,000
Equity
1% - 3%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
1+ years
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
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.