What we’re doing — Our trajectory and telos

Aesher’s mission is to ensure practical computability for NP-hard optimization problems. We’re working to build new classes of infrastructure for intensive computational problems and producing systems that advance capabilities for solving humanity's hardest challenges is only the beginning.

We’re building a high-specification architecture focused on a strong roadmap and accelerated timeline. We have early milestones we want to hit and we’re hiring exceptional researchers and engineers in computer architecture and electrical engineering, applied physics, aerospace, materials science, TCS and statistics, programming, and advanced manufacturing.

Come do the most significant work of your life

• Strong base salary + competitive equity package
• Generous benefits

We’re based in San Francisco, and our labs are headquartered in a part of the city set beside cypress groves and coastal trails. Think natural light and fresh ocean air and panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay.

To apply to be a part of our team, send an email to Sebo at sebo@aesher.co with the subject line "Working at Aesher: [What you want to work on]". Please include:

• 2-3 bullet points on your most significant technical contributions yet, and
• your preferred links to help us learn more about you and your work — Google Scholar, GitHub, LinkedIn, personal website, portfolio, Stack Exchange, etc.

Our character and animating principle

Focused, coordinated research and engineering

We’re a fully cohesive and nimble research and engineering team. We work on different aspects of Aesher’s capabilities work but converge on coordinating strong progress around our shared mission and milestones. This means we want to find people who’ll be excited to share ownership over a set of critical goals and who can be strong problem solvers even in the context of routine or even introduced constraints.

Resonance, kindness, and curiosity

Aesher is a scenius where elite engineers and researchers come to solve consequential challenges. We work and play together to build high-coherence machines and advanced abstractions. We do this by producing precision-tolerant hardware, software models, and algorithmic frameworks for reading, calculating, handling, representing, and changing information really, really well — that is, efficiently, constructively, and expressively.

We are seeking world-class people who are ready to tackle challenging projects that will achievably scale to resource-efficient computing technology on Earth that is on a comparable level with that of other young spacefaring civilizations.

We want people who are possessed of instinctive wonder and who have the keen propensity to act on it with strong self-efficacy. Invariably, this kind of resonance tends to lend itself to effective creativity (as abstraction), kindness (as depth of awareness), and relentless curiosity (as a kind of intrinsic breadth) to how someone thinks through and aims to solve a hard problem.

Our mode is to default to action

We want to see how you look at problems and approaches, and how you pull them apart practically.

• raw acuity. attentiveness and clear perception; a keen capacity for continuous pattern recognition and abstraction synthesis; some facility for single-minded obsession.
• force of will. we care about seeing how you distill both complex and simple problems into graspable forms and figures, and if you can learn to communicate effectively.
• higher-order awareness. a kind of preparedness for suspending judgment about the ontological status of experience; some ability to deconstruct the internal structure of a concept so that it is approachable; some disposition (minor or otherwise) for exercising perceptual plasticity over physical structures.

How we work — Our tenor

Hard work and high-spec capabilities are a core tenet of our operating principles.

We maintain closed feedback loops between R&D and the system products we’ll be deploying. This locksteps with our emphasis on velocity and results, and will result in strong gains in innovation speed, engineering implementation, and successful deployment timelines.

We prioritize hiring top talent and cultivating a culture based on strong foundational and applied capabilities; intellectual curiosity; collaboration; rigor, discipline, and critical analysis; and effective areté.

• Research and engineering at Aesher is unimodal and singularly applied into model and system capabilities. We have a flat organizational structure and people can perfuse between teams to strengthen a team’s hardiness and strategy.
• We work on focused timelines as a single cohesive team. We coordinate tightly and with dexterity on a targeted research and engineering strategy focused on computer hardware and computational abstraction. This outputs to how we design and deploy architectures for hardware and software infrastructures.
• We value achievability and have good visibility into critical dependencies across our roadmap. This is to say that we know which problems to solve at the foundational, applied, and implementation levels of our system capabilities strategy, and have achieved a reasonably strong attack on (how to derisk) these problems — across design, experimentation, prototyping, integration, certification, and deployment.

Come build beyond the ordinary.

Join the teams responsible for designing, building and testing high-precision architectures and model frameworks.

Visa sponsorships: If we make you an offer to join our team, we will sponsor your visa and make every effort to bring you into the United States.

Green cards: Once you’re eligible, we’re also prepared to sponsor green cards.

We strongly encourage you to apply even if you feel you do not meet every single qualification or attribute as described. We care more about demonstrable impact and resonance, and you definitely do not need to match every element of the archetypes we’ve described for you to be considered a good candidate.

Come be a part of our moonshot mission. We are an equal opportunity employer and care about excellence regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, or any other protected status.