Founding Engineer (Generalist)
About the role
Founding Engineer position at Firebender, an in-person AI coding agent company based in San Francisco. Role focuses on building and scaling an Android-focused coding assistant, with a strong emphasis on rapid delivery, hard engineering challenges, and in-person collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Build/iterate on agentic evaluation, and discovery multi agent strategies to solve harder and harder coding problems on large codebases
- Manage infrastructure of our h100 cluster, and implement run time improvements like speculative decoding, kv-cache tuning, etc.
- Talk to engineers to gather feedback, and implement/deploy quickly with little to no hand holding
Qualifications
- Can articulate an impressive engineering feat that you’ve accomplished that shows you can build quickly
- 0-3 years of software experience/B.S computer science is nice to have, but not hard requirement
- Kotlin or Android engineering experience is a plus, but not a requirement
- Willingness to work extremely hard in a tight knit team. We take our work seriously, and to set clear expectations, this is not a place for work life balance. Its our responsibility to do right by the engineers that use our tool and believed in us early on; this requires immense effort. If pushing yourself and intense challenges are exciting to you, then we’d love to work with you
Skills
About Firebender
Android Studio Coding Assistant
Firebender is a free and privacy-first Android Studio AI assistant. One-click install from the IntelliJ plugin marketplace to your IDE. It has context over your codebase and lets you use the best models for asking questions, debugging code, and generating code snippets. Unlike other AI assistants with outdated Android knowledge, Firebender continuously updates its knowledge base with the latest Android SDKs, libraries, and best practices, providing more accurate and relevant assistance for Android development.