Senior Founding Engineer, Core Platform

We are looking for a Senior Founding Engineer, Core Platform with 6-10 years of experience to own the core AI agent platform behind Bronco's chip verification product. We want a hands-on builder who has shipped production AI agent systems and led engineering work, ideally at a startup. You will help Jeff, the CTO, set technical direction and keep the team shipping fast as Bronco scales across some of the world's largest chip companies.

What will you be doing?

• Doing high-impact IC work on the agent runtime, AI-native EDA tooling and core Python platform
• Turning vague problems into working AI systems, then improving them using traces, evals, telemetry and product form-factor changes
• Packaging and deploying the product in Podman containers for on-prem, airgapped customer environments
• Steering a fast-moving junior team by spotting bottlenecks, setting priorities and making architecture calls with the CTO
• Partnering with Forward Deployed Engineers to turn customer field learnings into product

Key Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience (4+ considered if you were a ground-floor founding engineer or founder)
• Have owned and shipped a modern AI agent or LLM-based application in production
• Have led an engineering team or major project, ideally at a strong startup
• Strong backend and infrastructure depth, including Linux/Unix, containers, networking and storage, plus strong Python
• Engineering degree (CS, EE or ECE) from a top engineering school; able to work on-site 5 days a week in SF