Founding Software Engineer

The Role

As we continue to scale our product, we're seeking a resourceful, product-focused founding engineer to help us build a world-class firmware development platform from the ground up. This is a hands‑on role - you'll report directly to the CTO and work closely with the CEO, exercising real ownership over the Boot Loop product portfolio. As the company grows, you’ll help create a team of incredible engineers around you.

• Own major product areas end-to-end. Conceive, design, and implement product features across our desktop application and cloud stack in close collaboration with customers
• Build systems that handle complex technical requirements for engineering customers building mission‑critical systems
• Build world‑class user experiences that raise the bar for firmware developer tooling
• Collaborate with founders on product strategy, technical feasibility, and platform decisions
• Define and evolve a technical roadmap across our entire product portfolio, steering technology stack and development practices based on what's actually driving results
• For example, you might:
  • Build a zero‑error computer vision system for extracting information from hardware documentation
  • Create ontologies for chip and sensor systems to unify datasets across many domains
  • Design agentic flows across firmware development verticals, from debugging to real‑time triage and root‑cause analysis

• 4+ years in software development, with significant experience building products for highly‑technical users (engineers, developers, technical teams)
• Track record of shipping 0-to-1 products independently at early‑stage companies
• Full‑stack technical expertise - you can architect, implement, debug, and deploy across frontend, backend and all technologies in between
• Experience with web technologies (React, Node.js) and Python
• Developer tools or infrastructure experience - you understand engineer workflows and pain points deeply
• Data‑driven approach to building, measuring impact, and iterating quickly

• Embedded development or firmware experience working with hardware, real‑time systems, and low-level code

• Competitive compensation: $200k-325k base salary
• Significant equity: 2.5 - 4.5% stake in a seed‑stage company as founding engineer
• High-impact role:
  You'll define how this product gets built and own critical features end-to‑end
• Direct founder access:
  Work side‑by‑side with CEO/CTO daily, shape company strategy
• Cutting‑edge product:
  Build something genuinely innovative that helps companies build world‑changing technologies
• Health & benefits:
  Comprehensive health insurance, unlimited PTO, relocation compensation