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
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.
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 mathematical maturity to formulate problems precisely before reaching for an implementation, whether that's a placement algorithm, a constraint solver, or a simulation feedback loop.
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 afraid to raise your hand when you need context or when you spot a problem with the plan.
Why JITX?
- The algorithms we're building don't exist yet. Fully automated PCB layout (with placement, routing, pin assignment, and now simulation-in-the-loop) is an open research problem that we're turning into a shipping product.
- Hardware is everywhere. The tools engineers use to design it haven't fundamentally changed in decades. We're changing that.
- Because our designs are code, we have a natural foundation for AI that traditional GUI-based tools simply don't. We can leverage AI at every stage in ways that aren't practical when designs live in proprietary formats.
- You'll work directly with the people making architectural decisions, not through layers of process.
- We care about elegant solutions, not just working ones.