Fermi AI - CTO/Founding Engineer

• 10+ years of software engineering with real production ownership of distributed or stateful systems - you've been paged for something you built and made it not happen again • Strong understanding of LLM-based native app building, combining classic and model-driven applications to get the best of both • Built on LLMs beyond demos: agent frameworks, tool use, context management, eval fixtures; you know why "it worked in the transcript" isn't evidence • Python and shell in production settings; comfortable in TypeScript/Node • Write boring, testable code and prefer the standard library to a new dependency • Systems taste: append-only logs, idempotent reconciliation, fold-the-events state machines, and read-only debugging surfaces feel like home • Evidence discipline: tests before features, claims backed by quoted observations, decisions written down • Experience running multi-tenant and single-tenant / on-prem-style fleets with per-customer isolation, upgrade paths, and migration compatibility • Security instincts for products touching sensitive data (executives' email, calendars, messages): least privilege, loopback-only services, secrets that never hit a log • Already orchestrate AI coding agents in your workflow and have opinions about where they break • How We Work • Small team, high trust, written decisions. Designs get adversarial review before code; PRs get automated review driven to zero open findings; features aren't done until verified on a live system. AI agents do a large share of the implementation—your leverage is judgment: framing the problem, freezing the right design, and knowing when the machine is wrong. • You Should Apply If • You Should Apply If • You enjoy turning messy problems into concrete solutions • You thrive in fast-moving, low-process environments • You're excited about production engineering (monitoring, reliability, cost, latency) • You Should Not Apply If • You want remote/hybrid (this is onsite Bangalore only) • You prefer narrow tickets and minimal ambiguity • You prefer highly structured, slow-moving product organizations • The Recruiter for this role is Ritesh Kalvellu. Apply to the role directly, and he will get back to you if your profile is relevant to the hiring requirements.