Founding Software Engineer - Optexity (India)

Pear Vc
Bangalore, India
On-site

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for mid-level software engineers with experience in deploying production systems who thrive in open-ended, ambiguous environments and are energized by building clinical reasoning systems.

Best fit for

  • Mid-level engineers with a background in deploying real-world production systems and a passion for healthcare technology
    — “Has real minimum two years of experience in deploying production systems.
  • Individuals who are comfortable with ambiguity and taking ownership of projects without being guided
    — “Takes ownership without needing to be guided
  • Candidates who prefer startup environments and are motivated by speed and ambiguity as defaults
    — “Genuinely wants a startup over big tech — speed and ambiguity as defaults, not exceptions

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high degree of independence and initiative in solving open-ended problems
    — “Take open-ended problems from question to working model, with minimal predefined structure
  • The position is likely more suitable for those seeking long-term ownership and technical direction influence
    — “Real ownership of technical direction, with scope that grows as the company does

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with large-scale search systems and clinical data in your resume and interviews
    — “Work on large scale search systems on real, proprietary clinical data from hospital and clinic partners
  • Emphasize your ability to build semantic search systems on unstructured data
    — “Build semantic search system on large unstructured data.
  • Showcase your experience in end-to-end product design and ownership
    — “Own the product design end to end.
  • Demonstrate your capability to write up findings as technical reports or papers
    — “Write up findings as technical reports and papers
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • deployed production systems
  • published papers in NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR
Typical background
background in computer scienceexperience in startups

Skills & requirements

Required

Large Scale Search SystemsSemantic SearchProduct DesignOpen-ended Problem SolvingTechnical Writing

Preferred

Llm-powered ProductsFounder ExperienceProduct Taste

Stack & domain

Llm-powered ProductsOpen-ended Problem SolvingAmbitionOwnershipProduct TasteClinical ReasoningComputer Use ModelsSearch SystemsChat SystemsAI

About the role

Original posting from Pear Vc via Ashby

ABOUT OPTEXITY

Optexity is a product-driven research lab building clinical reasoning and computer use models for hospitals and clinics. We are building world class search and chat system for doctors to help them find information quickly and elevate the level of care. We deploy directly inside clinics and hospitals — including systems with no APIs, using integration infrastructure we've built and open-sourced — and in return become their preferred partner. That gives us proprietary clinical reasoning trajectories from practicing physicians, and a feedback loop between real patient encounters, our models, and the products built on top of them.

We're a small, fast-moving founding team with multiple published papers in NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR etc and background from Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, CMU, IIT.

We are backed by world-class investors and leaders like Jeff Dean, Neotribe VC, PearVC, Together Fund and Zapier Fund.

HOW WE WORK

  • Customer obsession — we start with the customer and work backwards
  • Intellectual honesty — ideas matter more than titles; we communicate directly and assume good intent, even in disagreement
  • Bias for action — we build and learn with customers rather than debate in the abstract
  • Extreme ownership — we own outcomes, not just tasks, and see problems through

What you'll do

  • Work on large scale search systems on real, proprietary clinical data from hospital and clinic partners to surface insights for doctors to help with clinical reasoning.
  • Build semantic search system on large unstructured data.
  • Work on customer facing products and be part of fast moving team.
  • Own the product design end to end.
  • Take open-ended problems from question to working model, with minimal predefined structure
  • Write up findings as technical reports and papers

Ideal candidate

  • Has real minimum two years of experience in deploying production systems.
  • Bachelor's in computer science and related fields.
  • Energized by open-ended problems and ambiguity
  • Takes ownership without needing to be guided
  • Genuinely wants a startup over big tech — speed and ambiguity as defaults, not exceptions

Nice to have

  • Prior founder or founding-engineer experience
  • Strong product taste
  • Built LLM-powered products before
  • Ambitions to start your own company someday — we'll support that path

What you get

  • Direct, daily work with the founders, plus exposure to board and investor conversations
  • Real ownership of technical direction, with scope that grows as the company does
  • Full compute and data to do the work properly
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity

Source: Pear Vc careers (Ashby)

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