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Systems Engineer @ Dedalus Labs

Mission

Dedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents.

We’re building the persistent compute layer that powers the next generation of autonomous software. Our platform spans virtualization, distributed systems, storage, networking, orchestration, and low-level runtime infrastructure. Every millisecond, every sys-call, every scheduling decision matters.

We’re looking for systems engineers who enjoy understanding computers all the way down.

You might be a fit if you

Think abstractions are useful because you understand what’s underneath them.
Care about latency, throughput, memory usage, and tail performance.
Enjoy debugging problems that take days to understand and minutes to fix.
Believe reliability is a feature.
Think distributed systems are fun rather than frightening.
Get excited reading kernel commits, infrastructure blogs, or systems papers.
Have strong opinions about operating systems, virtualization, networking, or storage.
Like making difficult systems feel simple.
Measure before optimizing, then optimize relentlessly.
View performance engineering as product engineering.
Believe the best infrastructure disappears into the background.
Are high agency and fiercely independent.
Design Engineer @ Dedalus Labs
Mission
Dedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents.
We are looking for a design engineer who wants to build the UI for the platform that will power the AI agents of the future.

You might be a fit if you
- Are obsessive about user experience.
- Measure thrice, cut once.
- Sweat the small details.
- Believe great products are built from millions of tiny perfected parts.
- Live at the bleeding edge of web and browser technology.
- Have strong opinions about frameworks, languages, rendering models, and where the web is going.
- Think the internet should be faster.
- Have shipped amazing work.
- Understand why a spring beats a tween.
- Care about optimal bundling strategies.
- View software engineering as simply moving typed data around.
- Believe actions speak louder than words.
- Are high agency and fiercely independent.
- Say how things ought to be built, then build them.
- Are a competitive teammate with a heart of gold.
- Are hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.
- Go above and beyond in everything you do.
Dedalus (YC S25) is hiring a full-time distributed systems engineer to help build the infrastructure layer powering the next generation of AI agents.
We are building persistent compute infrastructure, cloud sandboxes, and developer tools for long-running AI agents. Our systems span virtualization, orchestration, storage, networking, and low-level runtime infrastructure. The role is based in San Francisco and involves working closely with a small, highly technical team operating at startup speed.
What You’ll Work On
- Distributed systems infrastructure for large-scale agent workloads
- Virtualization and sandboxing technologies
- Persistent compute and storage systems
- Scheduling, orchestration, and reliability engineering
- Performance optimization across systems layers
- Internal developer platforms and infrastructure tooling
- Production systems operating under real-world scale and latency constraints
Requirements
- Strong systems programming ability in Rust (preferred), Go, C/C++, or similar languages
- Graduate-level knowledge of distributed systems and operating systems concepts
- Experience building distributed systems in industry, research, or open source
- Experience with Kubernetes and modern cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with one or more of the following:

Systems Engineer @ Dedalus Labs

Mission

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