Founding Engineer

ZeroEntropy (Headquarters: Remote)

Rust AI Machine Learning Search Low-Level Programming Infrastructure Retrieval AI Engineer Staff Engineer

**Company Overview:**\n\nZeroEntropy is building the next-generation retrieval engine for AI systems. We're rethinking search from the ground up: faster, more accurate, and built to serve as infrastructure for the next decade of AI. We're working on both the infrastructure and AI model layers.\n\n**Role and Responsibilities:**\n\nAs a Founding Engineer, you'll be a crucial member of the founding team, working closely with the founders on deeply challenging technical problems in search. Your responsibilities will span across research and engineering, where you will design, train, and optimize machine learning systems. These systems will push the limits of what's possible in performance-critical environments. A significant part of your contribution will involve building a scalable and low-latency infrastructure for a state-of-the-art search engine, with a strong focus on using Rust.\n\n**Technical Skills and Ideal Candidate:**\n\nWe are looking for candidates with either exceptional and very low-level programming skills (down to the metal), or extensive experience in AI model engineering and training. Preference will be given to individuals with a background in competitive programming (IOI, IMO), Quantitative research, or AI research.