# Founding Engineer (Systems + ML) at Partcl

- Company: Partcl (YC P25)
- What the company does: Design a chip in minutes. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://partcl.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $130K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-07-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/partcl/jobs/QYIRyyx-founding-engineer-systems-ml
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/partcl-founding-engineer-systems-ml/

## About the role

At Partcl, we’re not here to play it safe - we’re here to win. We want people who wake up every day wanting to win too. If you are interested in solving massive-scale problems in physical AI, come join us.

## What they're looking for

- Expert in PyTorch and CUDA programming
- Deep understanding of systems - memory, latency, and performance tradeoffs
- Experience designing, training and deploying custom models (a GPT wrapper does not count)
- Versatility: comfortable toggling between model architecture design, low‑level optimization and scaleable system design (N~>10M)
- Proficient with GPU profiling and performance analysis

Tags: Engineering