Recruiting from Scratch · 3 months ago
Founding Member of Technical Staff (Software)
Berkeley, CA|On-site
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$200K/yr - $500K/yr
3+ years expRecruiting from Scratch is a talent firm focused on placing top candidates for clients. They are representing an innovative startup developing security solutions for AI data centers, and they are seeking a Founding Member of Technical Staff (Software) to engage with partners, design verification systems, and build integrations for security stacks.
Staffing Agency
Responsibilities
Work closely with data center partners and AI clients to understand real-world security needs and integration requirements
Design and implement formal verification systems to ensure mathematically guaranteed security properties for FPGA-based security switches
Build SDKs and integrations for ML engineers to seamlessly interact with security stacks from their familiar environments (e.g., Python)
Engineer solutions that deeply integrate with confidential computing and trusted execution environments (TEEs)
Develop software that operates within complex network topologies in large-scale data centers, ensuring high performance and security
Help scale production capabilities to deliver performant and secure systems protecting hundreds of thousands of GPUs by 2026
Qualification
Required
3+ years of experience in ML research or engineering with a track record of shipping quickly
Experience bridging novel research (approx. 60%) with engineering implementation (approx. 40%)
Demonstrated success in AI/ML research, cybersecurity, or systems engineering in high-stakes environments
Proven ability to take research projects from conception through production deployment
Background in top AI labs, defense organizations, or agile hardware/software companies strongly valued
Preferred
PhD in Computer Science, Physics, or related field (nice-to-have)
Strong low-level software engineering skills in C, Rust, or similar languages
Familiarity with AI-native workflows and use of AI tools for productivity
Knowledge of confidential computing, security engineering, or experience with CTF competitions
Exposure to data center networking (Arista), PyTorch, Xilinx FPGAs, and formal verification tools
Benefits
Equity: 1-3%
Visa Sponsorship: Available for exceptional candidates.
Onsite Policy: In-person role based in Berkeley, CA.
Other: Opportunity to build security systems protecting tens of millions of GPUs globally, working at the frontier of AI infrastructure security.
Company
Recruiting from Scratch
A recruiting agency working with technology companies to help them hire software engineers, data roles, product managers, and hardware.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Will Sanders
Founder / CEO
Tom Callahan
Managing Partner, Retained Executive Search
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