Applied AI Software Engineer, FOSSA
CA$120-200k
+ Equity
Open source management platform
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Open source management platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$120-200k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To remove the friction between speed and compliance in today's software-driven world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working on greenfield projects as part of small teams
- Experience building and deploying software in high-velocity environments
- Experience building and supporting scalable SaaS products and features
- Experience with relational databases and writing performant SQL queries
- Experience interacting with LLM APIs as a service
- Enjoy combining the latest technologies and tools with best practices to accelerate development
- Passionate about getting creative with AI to work around its shortcomings in creating automated solutions to complex problems
- Interest in the art of programming languages (design, compilers and syntax parsing, etc)
- You're comfortable navigating complex domains and building intuitive software for them
- You thrive in an environment that prefers prototypes over proposals
- Proactive in sharing ideas and informed opinions with others
- Attention to detail and quality to anticipate edge cases ahead of time
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn new things
- You have 6+ years of experience working as a backend or fullstack engineer
What the job involves
- As an applied AI software engineer on our team, you'll be working on researching, designing, prototyping, and implementing our next generation of software at FOSSA
- While still working closely with the entire Engineering and Product departments, the R&D team focuses on more experimental software development that will define the future of our company
- Our current focus is around using a combination of static analysis, deterministic algorithms, along with LLM interactions, to provide our users with reliable, time-saving, and automated solutions to keeping their projects and the dependencies they use as healthy as possible The R&D team follows a lightweight process that lets the team move fast and learn from experiments quickly
- Work closely with our R&D business unit to research, plan, design, prototype, and build the future of FOSSA
- Own user-impacting functionality from conception to completion
- Build and scale the most valuable prototypes into production
- Have significant ownership in our technical architecture and R&D roadmap
- Primarily work in Typescript, but touch a variety of codebases in other languages, such as Rust, Haskell, or Go
- Contribute to structured analysis of various languages (Java, Python, others) our customers use
- Experiment with LLMs and context engineering and benchmark the results to ensure we accomplish maximal value and consistency from them
Our take
FOSSA (Free Open-Source Software Auditing) provides companies an open-source management platform for identifying open-source components in a company’s source code. This helps companies avoid potentially costly licensing infringements, and steer clear of vulnerabilities.
The developer cybersecurity market is a multi billion industry, and FOSSA has made strong headway into it since being founded in 2015. It has secured Uber, Verizon, and UiPath among its high-profile customer base. This is perhaps because FOSSA’s proposition truly seems win-win: developers receive guidance on the best open-source software, and companies shore themselves up against cyberthreats, non-compliance fines, and litigation.
FOSSA’s investment round success has begun modestly compared with more mature competitor Snyk, or the hefty seed funding of startup Apiiro. Nevertheless, its impressive client roster, combined with a new product release and the recent purchase of StackShare, suggests it is well on track to benefit from an anticipated boom in cybersecurity.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2020
$23.2m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$8.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $33.9m
Company benefits
- Generous time off
- Health benefits
- Remote-first workforce
- Parental leave
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kevin Wang
(Founder & CEO)After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science, Kevin was a Platform Engineer for Cloudera, which aimed to transform complex data into actionable insights. They were a Creator at TLDRLegal and Advisor at OSS Capital before founding FOSSA.
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