Software Engineer, Generalist

BUILD, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience required
1 year minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Training Data Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Big Data C++ (Programming Language) Cloud Computing Data Infrastructure Linux DevOps Hardware Design Python (Programming Language) Software Engineering
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TypeScript Scripting ReactJS Backend Data Management Front End Software Development Data Pipelines Golang

Job description

We’re hiring generalist software engineers who can work across the company. This seat finds the gap, ships in days not weeks, and moves on. One week you might build a data pipeline; the next a hardware integration script, an internal tool, or a customer-facing API. The only constant is a problem that is time-sensitive and business-critical., * Detect the highest-leverage gap that week - ingest, APIs, orchestration, field tools, hardware glue - and ship production-quality code for it

  • Build backend services and APIs for the data platform and the customer-facing product
  • Write processing and validation pipelines for incoming in-the-wild datasets
  • Script integrations between collection devices, cloud infrastructure, and software services
  • Design interfaces and developer workflows that the rest of the company actually uses
  • Work cross-functionally with research, Shenzhen hardware, and ops without waiting for a spec

Requirements

Software Engineering, Manufacturing, Training Data Sets, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Logistics, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Software Engineering, Customer Relations, Data Management, Application Programming Interface (API), * Strong full-stack skills; fluency in Python and at least one of TypeScript, React, Go, or C++

  • 1-5+ years shipping software end to end, ideally in a 01 or startup environment
  • You ramp quickly in unfamiliar codebases and problem domains
  • Bias toward action and comfort with incomplete information
  • Experience shipping where the role was not clearly defined

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

  • Experience across backend, frontend, data, infra, and scripting
  • Hardware-adjacent, AI, or large-scale data systems
  • Prior startup experience during hypergrowth
  • Infrastructure or DevOps (Linux, containers, cloud)

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive pay
  • Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
  • Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
  • Relocation support for those moving to San Francisco (Financial District) or Shenzhen (Nanshan)
  • Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
  • Daily lunch and dinner in our office
  • Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
  • Unlimited Codex and Claude credits
  • Travel

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