# Software Engineer, AI Platform

About fab2 The fab2 team can build anything. We design all the hardware and software needed to make chips and we make the fabs, tools, and components ourselves. We're looking for exceptional, hands-on people who can iterate to the limits of what's possible. fab2 was founded by Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller. Sam is best known for making chips in his garage, and Jim has been a leader in the semiconductor industry for the past 40 years. About the Team fab2 prints chips. fab2 prints fabs. The Software team builds the software that runs it all. About the Role We’re looking for a Software Engineer to build the AI platform behind fab2. This is a greenfield role with broad ownership across our AI stack. You’ll build the infrastructure and agent systems that turn engineering knowledge and workflows into useful tools for teams across fab2. Responsibilities Build the infrastructure for using AI models across cloud providers and our own on-prem compute. Develop agents, shared skills, MCP servers, and sandboxed execution environments. Create evals and benchmarks to measure where agents work, where they fail, and how to improve them. Turn engineering knowledge and repeatable workflows into shared

- **Id**: 1309708
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fab2-software-engineer-ai-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-01T22:44:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T10:59:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 74
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3730
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Semiconductor Equipment

## Company

- **Id**: 2218927
- **Name**: fab2
- **Domain**: fab2.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fab2>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 72
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 74

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T15:22:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 52; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 52 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.505
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 74
- **Expected fill days**: 72
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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