Founding Engineer

Responsibilities

• Write production-grade Rust code to build core infrastructure
• Own the technical direction across the platform and architecture
• Lead 0 to 1 product development from blank repo to real adoption
• Hire, mentor, and build the first wave of engineering talent
• Work directly with customers on integrations and technical requirements
• Shape the open-source narrative and developer ecosystem

Requirements

• Proven experience building foundational systems (query engines, storage layers, or distributed systems)
• Proficiency in writing production Rust code
• Experience with 0 to 1 product development in a fast-paced environment
• Strong first-principles judgment and high agency
• Ability to operate across infrastructure, APIs, SDKs, and product UX

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with graph infrastructure or lakehouse architecture
• Deep interest in AI memory architectures and knowledge graphs for LLMs
• Background in versioned-data systems or "git-for-data" concepts
• A credible public technical voice through OSS, writing, or community leadership

About the Company

UMATR is building core infrastructure for autonomous AI systems. We are developing a lakehouse-native graph database designed specifically for AI agents, providing a durable, versioned, and queryable memory layer. Our engine is open source and backed by a vision for multi-agent orchestration and advanced AI infrastructure.