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Founding Engineer, ML + Forward Deployment

Autostep· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Founding engineer role focused on ML, forward deployment, and desktop systems at Autostep. Build data/ML pipelines, ship product surfaces and features, and work directly with customers to derive value. High-ownership, fast pace, with emphasis on applied ML, AI agents, and enterprise infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve our data + ML pipeline across accuracy, context, speed, evals, algorithms, agents, and cost.
  • Ship new projects, product surfaces, UI, experiments, and features constantly. Small projects and improvements should be able to ship daily.
  • Improve our existing Mac/Windows desktop app across reliability, performance, deployment, and new capabilities.
  • Work directly with customers to clarify messy requirements and environments, question assumptions, define the actual problem, and create as much value as possible.
  • Turn lessons from individual customers into repeatable product improvements that make the next deployment better.
  • Keep engineering clean as you move quickly: requirements, PRDs, Linear, documentation, tests, decisions, and deadlines should stay current.
  • Use AI coding aggressively. We do not care whether you use one agent or twenty. We care whether you understand what shipped and whether it works.

Qualifications

  • Shipped work with measurable outcomes.
  • Strong Python experience.

Skills

Required:PythonMachine LearningLarge Language Models
Nice to have:AWSTypeScriptReactRustElectron

Benefits

  • $100K in LLM/model/compute credits to help improve the product. Create great customer outcomes with it and we’ll expand the budget.
  • Additional model, developer, and startup benefits.
  • Occasional access to invite-only founder/startup events.
  • Surfing when time and conditions permit.
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Uncover repetitive tasks and automate them

Autostep is a desktop app installed across your organization to surface repetitive, high-cost tasks that fly under the radar. We rank them by cost and impact so you know what's worth automating, then build or find the right fix - whether that's an AI agent, a process change, or an existing tool.

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