Synth

We build Research Engineering Agents

Founding Full Stack Engineer

$170K - $250K0.50% - 2.00%San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Frontend
Experience
3+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
Python, TypeScript
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Josh Purtell
Josh Purtell
Founder

About the role

As a Founding Full Stack Engineer, you’ll create a product interface for the platform and agent that will help engineers and teams improve and maintain their AI software through specification engineering. Task-driven UX and monitoring visualization are familiar, but you’ll also need to build software that quickly and effectively communicates the vast amount of information baked into experiments, evaluations, and results.

You’ll have significant influence over product direction and the utmost autonomy.

What you’ll be working on

— Task management interfaces for the Research Engineer product.

— Monitoring and specification interfaces to help customers manage and edit their software with Synth
— Interactive agents


What we’re looking for
— Ability to ship consistently and quickly

— Design sensibilities and ability to work effectively with designers

— Clear thinking and a desire to create high-performance, functional software

— Excitement for the prospect of designing new development patterns for AI software


Why join us
— Live on the frontier of agent post-training, prompt optimization, SFT, RL, and code synthesis alongside a team that has been pushing the field for years
— Shape how teams and engineers ship and maintain AI software with new patterns like specification-driven development.
— Operate with full ownership and autonomy; your design and implementation choices set the standard for our user experience

About the interview

  1. Initial screener
  2. Critique the current website / propose alternatives with TLDraw OR take-home assignment
  3. 45 min coding interview
  4. Onsite

About Synth

We help agent developers maintain and improve their ai software by identifying problems and fixing them with changes to scaffolding code, prompts, and models.

Synth
Founded:2024
Batch:F24
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Josh Purtell
Josh Purtell
Founder