Apply on Employer Site

Synonym · 1 month ago

Senior/Staff Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $200K/yr

Synonym is building Roebling, an AI-native industrial planning platform aimed at transforming industrial infrastructure development. The Senior/Staff Software Engineer will play a crucial role in evolving the product from MVP to a comprehensive platform, working across the stack and collaborating closely with founders and customers.

BiotechnologyIndustrial EngineeringManufacturingSoftware

Responsibilities

Help take the product from a working MVP to a robust, extensible, enterprise-grade platform used by engineering and operations teams on real industrial projects

Collaborate closely with the founders and early customers, shaping not only the technical architecture but also the engineering culture, product direction, and standards we’ll scale with

Rapidly prototyping new workflows for user feedback; designing core systems that must be correct, performant, and maintainable for years

Designing an AI agent that explores a project’s design space by running thousands of simulation scenarios in parallel, evaluating tradeoffs to CAPEX/OPEX, throughput, and carbon intensity

Building ingestion pipelines to bring public utility data, equipment specifications, and financial datasets into our data warehouse

Optimizing the simulation engine for speed and stability, including algorithmic improvements and hardware acceleration

Setting up CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, testing frameworks, and other systems that help our team move faster

Qualification

PythonTypeScriptReactFastAPIPostgreSQLMachine LearningClear communicationHigh ownershipTeam collaboration

Required

Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript/React, with the ability to build new features that span the entire stack

Thoughtful approach to system architecture and software design, with a track record of making pragmatic decisions in ambiguous environments

Experience shipping production software at an early-stage startup, ideally owning projects end-to-end from design through deployment

Clear written and verbal communicator, able to distill complex ideas, align the team on design decisions, and document your work

High level of ownership and bias toward action—you default to making progress, unblocking yourself, and moving things forward

Authorization to work in the United States

Preferred

Experience with our specific stack: Frontend: React, Next.js, Redux, TailwindCSS, Vercel; Backend: FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Pydantic, Supabase, Lang[chain|graph]

Practical experience building applications with LLMs

Hands-on experience with machine learning (e.g PyTorch)

Background or interest in scientific, mathematical, or engineering domains (e.g., biology, chemistry, physics, mechanical/chemical engineering)

Degree in Computer Science, or a solid understanding of algorithms and data structures