We are looking for a Senior Software Developer with 3-7 years of experience to join our founding team and shape the future of our product and engineering culture. You will play a pivotal role in building mission-critical software for highly-regulated manufacturing. As an early hire, you will work directly with founders and customers to own features end-to-end. We're seeking a candidate who can empathize with end-users and translate their needs into robust, scalable solutions.
What will you be doing?
What does your company do?
GroundControl builds mission-critical software for highly-regulated manufacturing. Our mission is simple: find workflows that thousands of manufacturers do mostly by hand today, and make them 10x faster with software and AI. We're backed by YC, 8VC, and strategic angels.
Our first product automates First Article Inspection (FAI), one of the most complex and paper-heavy quality processes in aerospace and defense. What used to take weeks of manual document review now takes hours. Hundreds of customers, including Epirus, Oura, and PCC trust us to handle these high-stakes workflows at scale.
What is our culture?
We move fast and we mean it. In Q1 alone we grew ARR over 15% MoM, shipped a major fine-tuned ML model into production, landed a distribution partnership, and are on track for FedRAMP — a rare credential that opens the door to the largest defense programs in the country. We're a small team punching well above our weight, competing against legacy incumbents who can't keep up with our velocity. We win when our customers win. If you want to build something that matters, this is the place.
Salary
$180,000 - $230,000
Location
San Mateo, CA
Total raised
$5.0M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
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