Member of Technical Staff — Company Building
Mirendil · San Francisco · $200,000–$350,000 (stated in the posting)
For engineers and scientists ready to build the company, not just the technology
Mirendil
Mirendil is a tech-first company focused on solving core bottlenecks that unlock step-change acceleration across science and technology. Our first goal is to democratize frontier AI R&D across scientific disciplines. We are building a frontier AI research company and training our own models end-to-end.
The Role
Every member of technical staff at Mirendil pushes the frontier. Most do it through research and engineering. This role does it by building the company itself.
You'll operate as a force multiplier for the founders, sitting at the center of a frontier AI lab, owning founder priorities, ways of working, early customers, and special projects. The scope shifts with the company's priorities; the job is always the highest-leverage unowned problem.
Your technical background is not a nice-to-have here. Our customers are researchers and engineers. Our product is frontier AI R&D itself. You'll speak fluently with ML researchers in the morning, translate that work into a compelling narrative for a design partner at noon, and improve our research organization's ways of working in the afternoon. You'll work directly with the CEO and co-founders on the highest-leverage problems in the company: you'll see every part of how a frontier AI company is built, funded, positioned, and scaled, from the inside.
What You'll Own
Founder leverage. Drive the founders' highest-priority initiatives while providing the day-to-day operational support that keeps them focused on what matters most: preparing for critical partner and investor conversations, coordinating priorities, and turning decisions into execution. You'll keep the founders on track and make sure their commitments don't slip.
Zero to one with our first customers. Take our first customers from zero to one, then work with Business and Operations to scale the motions. Our buyers are highly technical; you will shape our positioning, land early design partners, and run pilots end-to-end.
Company operating rhythm. Own the company operating rhythm. Build and run the systems that keep a research-driven company aligned and fast: planning cycles, goal tracking and internal KPIs, internal comms, and cross-team execution. You're the person who makes sure decisions get made, tracked, and followed through on across the team.
Special projects. Jump on whatever is most important and least owned: a partnership negotiation, a launch, a market or technical landscape analysis, an operational fire.
Who You Are
Technically credentialed and technically credible. MS or PhD in CS, EE, physics, math, or another STEM field, plus a few years in industry as an engineer, scientist, or researcher. You can read a paper and credibly participate in an ML systems discussion, and hold your own with frontier researchers.
Pulled toward the business side. You've felt the itch beyond your IC scope: maybe you drove a cross-functional initiative, ran the customer-facing side of a technical project, started something of your own, or found yourself doing the strategy work nobody asked you to do.
A translator. Exceptional written and verbal communicator who can distill technical depth and ambiguity into crisp decisions and narratives for investors, partners, and customers.
Structured and fast. You bring the analytical rigor of your technical training to messy, open-ended business problems: decomposing them, prioritizing ruthlessly, and executing fast.
Extremely high energy and endurance. This is an intense, all-in role with long hours at a company moving at frontier-lab pace. You thrive on that, and you're at your best when the stakes and tempo are high.
Bias toward action and low ego. You default to doing, you're relentlessly resourceful, and nothing is beneath you or above you.
We offer a base salary of $200,000–$350,000 USD and a meaningful equity grant, depending on experience and background, along with competitive benefits.