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# Founding Senior Software Engineer at Hyperscale

- **Company:** Hyperscale
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hyperscale/c3e22e86-19f6-4b0f-a4b2-0e733224e155

## Job description

Founding Senior Software Engineer (SF In-Person Preferred)

## About Hyperscale

Hyperscale is building AGI for physical operations. We're a team of ex-Samsara engineers and operators deploying frontier agentic systems in the real world. The result is a superagent that autonomously handles the highest-volume, most complex back-office workflows physical operations depend on: load coordination, scheduling, support, finance and billing, and more. We're live with some of the largest fleets in the US, running millions of autonomous tasks each week, with strong customer satisfaction. We're backed by top investors and moving fast.

## The Role

We're hiring a Founding Senior Software Engineer who will help build the core product infrastructure that powers Hyperscale's agentic AI platform. You'll work directly with the founders and across the stack - from backend systems to real-time voice interfaces to customer-facing features. You'll be working on cutting-edge applied AI challenges: building production agentic systems that autonomously handle complex, multi-step workflows in real-world operations. This means solving hard problems in agent orchestration, real-time decision-making, tool use, and human-AI interaction patterns - not just integrating LLM APIs, but architecting the intelligence layer that makes autonomous operations reliable at scale. This is a broad, hands-on role where you'll own significant parts of the product and have the opportunity to shape our engineering culture from day one. If you like building from zero, shipping fast, and solving hard problems close to real customer impact, this role is for you.

## What You'll Do

Engineering across the stack

- Build and own core product features end-to-end, from data models to user interfaces (including conversational/agentic UX)
- Design scalable backend systems that power our AI agents in production environments, including agent orchestration, memory systems, and tool execution pipelines
- Work on real-time communication infrastructure handling thousands of customer interactions
- Ship features that directly impact customer outcomes and business metrics

Infrastructure and reliability

- Build robust, observable systems that handle enterprise-scale workloads with autonomous agents in the loop
- Own deployment pipelines, monitoring, and incident response
- Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance velocity with quality and maintainability
- Establish engineering practices and patterns that will scale with the team

Cross-functional collaboration

- Work closely with founders, customers, and go-to-market teams to understand requirements and iterate quickly
- Translate customer problems into elegant technical solutions, including designing agentic workflows and interaction patterns
- Participate in technical discussions and architecture decisions
- Help evaluate and integrate new technologies and tools across the rapidly evolving AI landscape

## Team and culture building

- Set the bar for code quality, system design, and engineering excellence
- Mentor and collaborate with engineers as the team grows
- Shape our engineering culture, processes, and technical standards
- Contribute to hiring and building out the engineering team

## Who You Are

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to build and ship full-stack applications
- Strong fundamentals in backend systems, databases, APIs, and web applications
- Comfortable working across the stack and learning new technologies quickly
- Track record of owning complex features or systems from design through deployment
- Experience building production systems at scale with attention to reliability and performance
- Strong judgment about technical tradeoffs and when to optimize for speed vs. robustness
- Excellent communicator who can explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

## Nice to Have

- Experience with real-time communication systems, voice applications, or telephony
- Background in AI/ML product development, agentic systems, or integrating LLMs into production systems
- Prior work in logistics, operations, or enterprise SaaS
- Experience at an early-stage startup or as a founding engineer
- Open source contributions or side projects that demonstrate your craft

Location San Francisco preferred (in-person). We move quickly and value tight feedback loops across product, engineering, and customers.

## Why Hyperscale

- Real product in production with major US fleets
- Clear ROI and strong metrics already working in the wild
- Work on the frontier of practical AI engineering - agentic systems, real-time voice, and enterprise infrastructure
- Define the technical foundation for a category-defining product
- Build the engineering team and culture from day one, with a path to technical leadership as we scale
- Backed by top VCs and growing quickly - doubling the team in the first half of the year

To apply: Send a note with your LinkedIn/GitHub and 1-2 examples of work you're proud of (a system you built, an open source project, a technical writeup, or anything that shows how you think and build).

## About Hyperscale

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hyperscale provides a voice-first AI command center that automates complex trucking workflows, from driver check-ins and breakdown triage to maintenance scheduling and compliance, enabling fleet operations teams to scale their frontline work.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Oliver Song and Bo DellaMaria

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Logistics & Supply Chain; Enterprise AI / Agentic AI for Physical Operations
- **Target customers**: B2B, mid-to-large size trucking carriers and fleet operators (e.g., PS Logistics)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To improve the efficiency and safety of carrier operations, making sure no one gets left behind in the age of AI [runhyperscale.com](https://www.runhyperscale.com/about/)

## Products & Services
- **VIC (Virtual Intelligent Companion)**: A voice-first, always-on AI agent that handles driver calls 24/7. VIC can triage breakdowns, schedule maintenance, interpret fault codes, check hours of service, confirm deliveries, collect proof of delivery, and escalate issues to human dispatchers only when necessary. It functions as an inbound/outbound voice interface that replaces routine dispatcher-driver communications.
- **Hyperscale Platform (The AI Command Center)**: An integrated suite of AI-powered modules for Fleet Operations, Maintenance, Safety, and Planning. Key capabilities include:
    - **Proactive AI**: Uses data from TMS, driver preferences, HOS, and location to simulate the best driver-load match.
    - **Maintenance at Scale**: Schedules and notifies drivers of needed maintenance before breakdowns occur.
    - **Safety Coaching**: Delivers targeted, contextual coaching to drivers after safety violations or in inclement weather.
    - **Customer Communication**: Proactively reaches out to customers with ETAs and appointment scheduling.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Seed stage)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; company has publicly shared ROI case studies (e.g., $1.4M+/year in operational savings for a 1,000-1,500 truck carrier) [hsys.ai](https://www.hsys.ai/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by "industry veterans and top institutional funds" [runhyperscale.com](https://www.runhyperscale.com/about/). Key customer partnership: **PS Logistics** (one of the nation's largest carriers). Recognized on the **2026 FreightWaves FreightTech 100** list, alongside Samsara, McLeod, and Uber Freight [hsys.ai](https://www.hsys.ai/post/hyperscale-systems-named-to-freightwaves-freighttech-100).
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Founded in 2024 and has already deployed a production-grade AI agent with major carriers.
    - Reported 6.2% monthly employee growth (LinkedIn, reaching 9 employees) and a growing LinkedIn follower base (+4.7% monthly to 265 followers).
    - Expanding globally with team presence in the US, Philippines, Spain, and Australia [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperscalesystems).
    - 3 active job postings for founding-level roles (Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Manager).
    - Reported a 40% increase in dispatcher productivity in a 6-week pilot [hsys.ai](https://www.hsys.ai/).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Logistics & AI Expertise**: Founded by Oliver Song and Bo DellaMaria, who previously helped scale Samsara through its IPO. The team includes talent from Samsara, Uber Freight, and other logistics/AI leaders, giving them both operational credibility and technical depth.
- **Voice-First Agentic AI**: Unlike traditional text-based chatbots or simple IVR systems, Hyperscale’s VIC is a true agentic AI capable of holding complex, contextual conversations. It listens, understands driver intent, and takes actions (e.g., scheduling a repair, providing securement protocols) without human intervention—achieving 50%+ call resolution without escalation [hsys.ai](https://www.hsys.ai/post/hyperscale-systems-named-to-freightwaves-freighttech-100).
- **Modular, Scalable Platform**: The platform is designed as a suite of flexible modules (Operations, Maintenance, Safety, Planning) that carriers can adopt incrementally. This reduces implementation friction and allows for a "land and expand" strategy.
- **Proven Enterprise Adoption**: Secured a partnership with PS Logistics (a top 100 carrier) and is already in production, providing verifiable ROI ($1.4M+/yr savings for a mid-size carrier). This validates strong product-market fit in a notoriously difficult-to-penetrate industry.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Deployments**: Moving from pilot projects (e.g., P&S Transportation) to broader adoption across the partner carrier's fleets.
- **Deepening Agent Capabilities**: Expanding VIC’s role from call handling to more complex autonomous tasks, including proactive outbound customer communication, optimized driver-load matching, and predictive maintenance.
- **Becoming the Standard**: Leveraging the 2026 FreightTech 100 recognition to build credibility and become the default "AI Command Center" for fleet operations.
- **Building the Team**: Actively hiring founding engineers and product managers to accelerate product development and customer delivery.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Founding Team**: As a seed-stage company, you’d be a **founding team member**, working directly with experienced founders who have a track record of scaling a company to an IPO (Samsara). This offers significant ownership, autonomy, and career growth.
- **Massive Market with Clear Product-Market Fit**: The company is solving a real, painful problem in a multi-billion dollar industry (trucking/logistics). They have paying customers and proven ROI, reducing the typical "startup risk" and giving employees a sense of building something that truly matters.
- **Engineering & AI at the Core**: The culture emphasizes "extreme velocity & customer obsession" and "rapid iteration" [runhyperscale.com](https://www.runhyperscale.com/about/). The tech stack includes Python, and the core work involves building advanced AI agents that interact in real-time with drivers.
- **Culture**: Described as "customer-first," "operational superhumans," and "extreme velocity." The founders are hands-on and work closely with customers. The tone is ambitious but grounded in real-world operational understanding.
- **Location/Work Style**: Headquartered in San Francisco, with a distributed team (Philippines, Spain, Australia). The exact remote/hybrid policy is not explicitly stated for all roles, but given the small team size and global presence, significant flexibility is likely.
- **Notable Perks**: The chance to work on cutting-edge agentic AI; roles have high visibility with the founders; potential for a liquidity event given the founders' IPO experience.

## Sources
1. [hsys.ai - Company Homepage](https://www.hsys.ai/)
2. [runhyperscale.com - About Page](https://www.runhyperscale.com/about/)
3. [LinkedIn - Hyperscale Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperscalesystems)
4. [f4.fund - Company Profile](https://f4.fund/startups/hsys)
5. [hsys.ai - FreightTech 100 Announcement](https://www.hsys.ai/post/hyperscale-systems-named-to-freightwaves-freighttech-100)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hyperscale)

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