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Founding Engineer, Infra & Agent Systems

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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$100k - $150kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Cua is building infrastructure for general-purpose AI agents to safely and scalably use real computers and applications. As a Founding Engineer, Infra & Agent Systems, you will help turn research prototypes into production-ready infrastructure, shaping agent runtimes, cross-cloud orchestration, and developer tools in a hands-on, early-stage environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale infrastructure to run real AI agents on isolated macOS and Linux containers
  • Build orchestration systems across cloud providers (AWS, GCP, etc.) for deploying ephemeral agent environments
  • Create intuitive APIs and CLIs for developers to launch and control agents
  • Contribute to the design of secure, reproducible agent runtimes using Docker, KVM, or similar technologies
  • Work closely with early customers, open-source contributors, and the founding team to define roadmap and architecture
  • Publish engineering updates, blog posts, and technical documentation to grow the ecosystem
  • Participate in product discussions, contribute to internal research, and help drive long-term technical vision

Qualifications

  • 2+ years building and maintaining production infrastructure systems
  • Proficiency in one or more of: Python, Go, TypeScript, or Rust
  • Experience with backend system design, containers, and cloud environments
  • Strong interest in developer tools, AI infrastructure, or distributed systems
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous startup environment

Skills

Required:PythonGoTypeScript
Nice to have:Rust

Benefits

  • Equity in a founding role
  • Opportunity to influence product and technical direction
  • Open-source and ecosystem-building exposure
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Docker for Computer-use Agents

Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents. Sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks to train and evaluate AI agents that can control full desktops (macOS, Linux, Windows).

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