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BootLoop

Founding Software Engineer

BootLoop, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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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 BootLoop product portfolio. As the company grows, you’ll help create a team of incredible engineers around you.

What You'll Do

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

About You

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

Nice to Have

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

What We Offer

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

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