Senior Software Engineer
- Compensation
- $150K–$250K / yr
- Location
- Berkeley, Ca (Hybrid)
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Must Haves - Strong algorithmic problem-solving skills: graph/tree data structures, computational efficiency, and parallelism - Mathematical maturity. Comfortable reasoning formally about geometry, li
- Nice to Haves - Background in computational geometry, spatial data structures, or geometric algorithms - Polyglot programming experience, comfortable across multiple languages and paradigms - Interest
- You're an experienced software engineer with a strong mathematical foundation who knows that startups offer the best combination of impact and interesting problems to solve.
- You think algorithmically. You're comfortable reasoning about complexity, working through geometric and graph problems, and finding elegant solutions where brute force won't cut it. You have the mathe
- You're an engineer first. You write clean, consistent, production-ready code and take ownership of features end-to-end. You think about reliability and staging from the start, not as an afterthought.
- You thrive when given ownership of a problem space. You're the person who asks "why are we building this?" before diving into "how should we build it?" You don't need your hand held, but you're not af
Full description
About JITX
JITX is revolutionizing circuit board design by making it code-first. Instead of dragging components around in a GUI, engineers write code (or have AI write it for them) to define their circuit boards. Our solvers handle the low-level details, making hardware engineering massively reusable. We're a ~12-person startup building tools that bring software engineering practices to hardware design.
The Role
We're looking for a senior software engineer with a strong mathematical and algorithmic foundation who can own significant product areas end-to-end. You'll work on hard computational problems, from design automation algorithms to real-time visualization, shipping features that directly impact how electrical engineers design the hardware that powers the world.
You'll be diving straight into our new simulation loop project, a core initiative that tightly integrates our design engine with circuit simulation to catch errors earlier and give engineers faster feedback.
What You'll Work On
Design Automation Algorithms
- Placement, routing, pin-assignment, and geometry generation algorithms for PCBs
- Computational geometry and spatial data structures
- Constraint solving and optimization
Simulation Integration
- Integrating industry simulation tools (e.g. Ansys HFSS) into our design flow
- Building feedback loops that drive automated design optimization using simulation results
- Bridging between our design engine and external solvers to enable closed-loop iteration
What We're Looking For
Must Haves
- Strong algorithmic problem-solving skills: graph/tree data structures, computational efficiency, and parallelism
- Mathematical maturity. Comfortable reasoning formally about geometry, linear algebra, or optimization
- Solid software engineering fundamentals
- Ability to see the big picture and understanding how your work fits into the overall product
- Self-directed work style with ability to unblock yourself and others
- Track record of owning large features from planning through production
- Comfortable working with ambiguity in a startup environment
Nice to Haves
- Background in computational geometry, spatial data structures, or geometric algorithms
- Polyglot programming experience, comfortable across multiple languages and paradigms
- Interest in hardware, electronics, or CAD tools
- Education in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or comparable industrial experience
Who You Are
You're an experienced software engineer with a strong mathematical foundation who knows that startups offer the best combination of impact and interesting problems to solve.