Looking for someone who aims to maximize their learning rate and is not afraid to solve hard problems. You should be self‑aware about your strengths and weaknesses, and able to adapt your skills to problems you haven’t seen before.
You are an AI power user, not a vibe coder: you routinely use tools like Copilot/Claude/Cursor to design systems, debug, and ship production‑quality code faster, not to avoid thinking. You can read and reason about unfamiliar codebases, design clean APIs, and own features end‑to‑end from spec to deployment.
You’re comfortable with hardware and low‑level details: you can build PCs from parts, diagnose hardware issues, and live in the terminal on Linux/macOS for debugging, automation, and devops‑ish tasks.
You care about efficiency: you write code that is fast and robust, think about performance and failure modes up front, and are willing to profile, benchmark, and refactor to keep systems reliable as they scale.
Strawberry farming is a $3B industry in California alone with 60% labor cost using 40-year old software. Synphony provides strawberry picking robots and software services including: bed-level analytics, data pipeline integration, and agentic solutions.
Synphony's "side hustle" is selling data, evals, and viral demos to robot foundation labs while building capacity for general robot deployments. We've started with strawberry farming for great margins and outdoor data moat, but also received requests for robots in semi-conductors and autonomous space labs.
Synphony's team has won over 15 hackathons together (taking home 4 Jensen-signed GPUs!). Sean did ML research at NVIDIA and led AI products used by IRS and Citibank. Lucas' research spanned robotics, IoT devices, and neuromorphic computing. Alex architected an app with 400k users.
Salary
$25 - $60
Equity
5% - 5%
Location
San Carlos, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US / Santa Clara, CA, US
Sean Wu
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.