Senior Software Engineer-Founding Engineer (Ayama)

Overview

Ayama has partnered with Andrew Ng's AI Fund and a Fortune 500 energy leader to use AI to reshape how $10+ Trillion of heavy assets operate, are managed, and are maintained. With electrification driving rapid growth in energy and reshoring accelerating the build out of U.S. electronics and IT manufacturing, the company plans to close critical gaps by raising asset uptime & output as well as staff productivity.

This is a 100% hands-on role. You would be in the code and architecture all day, making decisions and shipping. You are expected to be AI-native and use modern AI development tools to move fast while making sound architectural choices.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve production RAG and LLM-based systems
• Design and maintain data pipelines that integrate enterprise data sources at scale
• Develop full-stack product features end-to-end, from Python backend through React/TypeScript frontend
• Work on optimization and scheduling problems with real operational constraints
• Build evaluation frameworks that measure whether AI systems are performing effectively