Founding Software Engineer
TerraWise
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 150k-250k / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 25, 2026
TerraWise builds fully autonomous inspection robots + Photon, an agentic AI platform for utility-scale solar O&M. You’ll own our customer-facing software platform, lead a FE/BE team, and design, ship, and scale ML infra that turns multimodal field data into real-time insights.
What you’ll do
- Own product delivery for TerraWise’s data platform + AI Agent (frontend, backend, data APIs, auth, billing, observability).
- Lead & mentor our FE/BE team; set coding standards, reviews, and sprints.
- Stand up ML infra (model registry, feature store, inference services, batch jobs, metrics).
- Drive platform reliability: logging, tracing, and CI/CD.
- Collaborate with robotics, autonomy, and CV to close the loop from field robots -> analytics -> actionable insights.
Requirements
- 3–5+ yrs as a strong IC
- Backend: FastAPI/Django/Node, REST/GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, object storage, queues.
- DevOps: Docker, CI/CD, AWS.
- Hands-on experience building and productionizing RAG pipelines including vector databases, embedding workflows, and LLM orchestration frameworks.
- Fluency in Python and one modern TypeScript web stack (React + Next.js).
- Fast, iterative product development: ability to hack, ship, and refine quickly with strong product intuition.
Bonus
- 1–3 yrs tech lead/manager.
- Robotics: ROS, C++
- ML/MLOps: PyTorch, model packaging, batch/stream processing, inference, experiment tracking.
- Map/GIS, WebGL, CV pipelines
Even if you don’t check every box above, we’d still love to talk. TerraWise has a deeply technical team with a culture built on growth, transparency, collaboration, and impact. If that resonates with you, apply.
Compensation
$150k–$250k+ (base) + meaningful equity.
Location
Full-time SF.
Skills to tag
- Python, C++, FastAPI, Docker, ROS, AWS/GCP, CI/CD, Rag Pipelines, AI Agents, PyTorch, MLOps, Computer Vision, GIS.