Director of Software Engineering
AI summary of the role
Director of Software Engineering at a seed-stage autonomous materials R&D startup.
What you’ll do
- Hire, develop, and retain a high-caliber software engineering team
- Conduct daily code reviews and submit 1–3 PRs per week
- Drive architectural decisions and maintain fluency with the stack to debug production issues
- Build and own the long-term software development roadmap in partnership with co-founder and product
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years software engineering experience with 3+ years in management or tech lead role
- Still deeply hands-on: writes and reviews code regularly
- Strong systems thinking for complex distributed systems
- Fluency in Go and/or Python
Technologies
Go · Python · Kubernetes · AWS · Terraform · CloudFormation · LLM · agentic systems · robotics · scientific computing
About Radical AI
Autonomous materials R&D platform combining AI, robotics, and closed-loop experimentation to discover novel inorganic materials in months instead of decades.
Seed
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Radical AI is replacing an R&D process that currently takes 10+ years and $100 million to produce a single discovery. Our self-driving lab platform combines AI with autonomous robotics to run experiments, analyze results, and iterate—continuously, without human bottlenecks. For industries like aerospace, automotive, defense, energy, manufacturing, semiconductors, and space, that means breakthroughs in weeks instead of years. We're a small, senior team, growing fast. This is a foundational hire. The Role We're looking for a Director of Software Engineering to build and lead the software engineering team as we scale. This is a player-coach role in the truest sense: you'll ship code every week while also owning the team's growth, culture, processes, and long-term technical direction. You'll report to our President and Co-Founder, and work closely with cross-functional stakeholdersHow jobs are selected
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