• 3-7 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful backend or systems work.
• Strong Python proficiency. This is the language you'll spend nearly all your time in, and real expertise here matters more than anything else on this list. A track record of writing clean, maintainable code in real production codebases.
• Genuine excitement about coding agents and a real hunger to get great at them—you want a team that will invest in that growth, not throttle it.
• Comfort with ambiguous, reverse-engineering-flavored problems: unfamiliar code, undocumented formats, weird edge cases.
• General knowledge of binary formats
• Solid fundamentals in design, testing, and debugging.
• Strong communication and high ownership in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Nice to Have (genuinely nice-to-have — none of these are required, and we don't expect any one candidate to have most of them)
• A little C or C++ — not required at all, but occasionally helpful for skimming vendor SDKs or binary formats.
• Familiarity with PCB / EDA / CAD workflows or hardware tinkering.
• Experience with binary or large-scale serialization formats (protobuf, custom binary, XML, JSON).
• Experience building tooling around coding agents (evals, harnesses, MCP servers, etc.).
• Cloud infra (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Open-source contributions in developer tooling, CAD, or simulation.