Founding Full-Stack Engineer

About Latency Labs

Latency Labs is building an AI × robotics startup focused on making it dramatically easier to build, optimize, and deploy AI models onto real-world hardware.

We’re building an AI system that can take an ML goal, run experiments, train and optimize models, benchmark them on target hardware, and produce production-ready models for devices like robots, drones, and other edge systems.

We’re a small, VC-backed team in San Francisco. Our founding team has deep experience building and deploying state-of-the-art AI models, from research through production.

The Role

We’re looking for a founding full-stack engineer who is exceptional at building products.

You do not need an AI/ML background. We know how to build the AI. We need someone who can turn that intelligence into a product people love using.

You’ll work directly with the founders to build the product around our AI systems: the interfaces, workflows, APIs, infrastructure, and developer experience that let engineers use our platform to train, optimize, evaluate, and deploy models.

Because you’ll be working directly with cutting-edge AI systems every day, this is also a great role for a strong software engineer who wants to get deep exposure to AI and learn how modern AI systems are actually built and shipped.

What You’ll Work On

• Build and ship our core web product from end to end
• Design intuitive interfaces for complex AI and robotics workflows
• Build APIs and backend services for long-running AI jobs and experiments
• Build real-time experiences for logs, progress, results, benchmarks, and model artifacts
• Integrate our AI agents with GPUs, model-training infrastructure, hardware, and external developer tools
• Build internal tools that help us move faster
• Work directly with early customers and turn their feedback into product
• Help establish the engineering practices and technical foundations of the company

This is a highly hands-on role. You’ll be writing and shipping code constantly.

What We’re Looking For

You’re probably a good fit if you:

• Are a strong full-stack engineer who can independently ship polished products
• Are comfortable moving across frontend, backend, databases, APIs, and infrastructure
• Have strong product instincts and care about UX
• Move quickly without needing perfectly defined requirements
• Like owning problems from idea through production
• Are excited about AI, robotics, developer tools, or infrastructure
• Want to work closely with a small founding team in person in San Francisco

Experience with Python/FastAPI, TypeScript/React, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or real-time applications is useful, but we care much more about your ability to build than whether your current stack exactly matches ours.

AI/ML experience is not required.

Why Latency Labs

You’ll be working directly with cutting-edge AI and shipping it into real products used by robotics and AI teams.

Rather than working on another wrapper around an API, you’ll see the full stack: agents, model training, optimization, GPUs, hardware deployment, and the product layer that ties everything together.

If you’re a strong software engineer who wants to get much deeper into AI, you’ll get a lot of exposure very quickly.