Systems Engineer

At Exponent, we’re building a platform for specialized software engineering agents.

We believe the future of professional software engineering is humans managing fleets of AI agents. This won’t just be for writing code, however, but also for responding to incidents, analyzing production data, automatically fixing bugs, and reviewing code.

Exponent is in a unique position to shape this future. We’ve built a platform called the Exponent Runtime that lets us tackle all software engineering tasks at once—the runtime makes it easy to build specialized agents that are state of the art at different tasks software engineers do. Most companies only focus on the task of writing code or one specialized task—at Exponent we are automating the entire software development lifecycle.

Exponent is in a unique position to shape this future. If you are curious and interested in building at the bleeding edge of AI capabilities and AI developer tools, we would love to hear from you.

What we’re working on:

It’s happened to you before: you think you have a full day available for deep work, but you get interrupted by a bug report, then a one-off request to query some data, three pings to review big pull requests, and all of a sudden it’s mid-afternoon.

At Exponent, we’re building a platform for agents that handle these tasks so that engineers can focus on their most important work. We’re building specialized agents, such as a Bugfix, SQL, and Code Review, that take tasks like the ones mentioned above entirely off your plate.

Over time, as we build more agents, those agents become more capable, and our customers extend our platform to create their own agents, every engineer’s day will start and end with Exponent.

Who we are:

• Are taking an ambitious approach to a massive market, and each team member’s responsibilities reflect this. At Exponent, a single-engineer owned product like the Code Review Agent regularly outperforms entire companies dedicated to the same problem.

• Are a team of engineers who have each been building software for over a decade, and value technical depth in a world where it’s increasingly easy to forego it. We come from a background of systems and infrastructure engineering, working on things like the Swift Compiler, distributed data orchestration software, and scaled video conferencing systems.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain one of the key infrastructure components of Exponent, such as the Exponent control plane server, the fleet of servers hosting user codebases, database proxies, continuous release pipelines for on prem deployments, and so on.

• Innovate on new infrastructure that hasn’t been invited yet that will be required to make working with agents at scale possible for large enterprise engineering teams.

Strong candidates will have a few of the following:

• Have experience with modern backend Python stack. We build from the ground up on simple primitives: Python, FastAPI, Postgres, and Redis

• Have experience working on a systems or infrastructure project, such as a compiler, orchestration system, message queue, database, or other distributed system. Exponent’s product requires fault tolerant, low latency, and real time communication between several services, and a history of working on such systems is a plus.

• Deep understanding of terminal emulation and shells (Exponent agents have deep integrations with terminals to run and iterate on code)

• Infrastructure experience with systems like Kubernetes or lower level tools such as Fireworks and Unikernels.

Our Process:

Please fill out the short application below. If there’s a potential fit, a founder will reach out directly to set up time to meet. From there, we want to quickly and thoroughly get to know each other. We will invite you to visit us at our office for at least one day where we’ll go through your past experience and work through some problems together.