--- title: 'Software Architect at Foundation EGI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-architect-foundation-egi-boston-623mkgrgts1n' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Software Architect at Foundation EGI - **Company:** Foundation EGI - **Location:** Boston, MA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-05-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/foundation-llm-technologies/5134bae0-6baa-4b3e-b93b-cf648785450a ## Job description ## About us We are an MIT-born, venture-backed Silicon Valley startup building a real-life 'Jarvis'—an AI Copilot for design and manufacturing. Our goal is to utilize advanced AI, physics simulation, and computer graphics to reduce costs and improve engineering productivity across all steps of the design and manufacturing process. ## The Role We are looking for an experienced Software Architect to help shape the foundation of our products as we scale. You will lead architecture decisions across our systems, collaborate closely with product and research teams, and drive the delivery of high-impact features across the stack. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, mentoring teams, and building scalable systems at the intersection of AI, simulation, and modern cloud infrastructure ## Responsibilities - Lead the architecture, technical design, and execution strategy for cross-functional engineering initiatives. - Define scalable system designs and establish engineering best practices across the organization. - Partner closely with Product and Research teams to translate ideas into production-ready features. - Break down complex initiatives into clear technical specifications, implementation plans, and delivery milestones. - Mentor engineers and researchers through architecture reviews, code reviews, technical documentation, and pair programming. - Improve the reliability, scalability, observability, and performance of our platforms and services. - Contribute hands-on to critical parts of the codebase with clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. - Drive continuous improvements in developer experience, infrastructure, and deployment workflows. - Help foster a strong engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, and collaboration. What Were Looking for - BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. - 10+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems. - Strong experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures. - Fluency in Python, TypeScript, and SQL. - Experience designing and implementing gRPC and Protobuf-based APIs. - Experience working with cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform. - Strong knowledge of data modeling, performance optimization, and scalable system design. - Familiarity with machine learning including LLMs. - Experience building Frontends with React.JS. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams. Bonus Points - Experience managing infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.). - Experience working with CAD software. - Background in computer graphics, simulation, or physics-based systems. - Experience building or working with Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs). - Experience deploying or integrating machine learning systems into production environments. - Familiarity with Kubernetes-based production environments. Our Tech Stack - Google Cloud, AWS - Python, TypeScript - Protobuf, gRPC - Next.JS, React.JS - GitHub Actions - Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker - PostgreSQL ## About Foundation EGI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Foundation EGI is an AI platform that automates how manufacturers create, manage, and distribute technical documentation — transforming 3D CAD designs into technical drawings, workstep sequences, product catalogs, and multilingual manuals. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed; "backed by top VCs" as of 2025) - **Headquarters**: Not explicitly disclosed — remote-friendly company with roots at MIT CSAIL (Cambridge, MA, USA) and leadership based in the San Francisco Bay Area (Los Altos, CA) - **Founded**: 2023 (incorporated late 2023; research began at MIT CSAIL in 2022) - **Founders**: Dr. Mok Oh (Co-founder & CEO), Prof. Wojciech Matusik (Co-founder & Chief Scientist), Michael Foshey (Co-founder & Head of Research) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: AI for manufacturing / engineering software ("engineering intelligence"); technical documentation automation for physical product companies - **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise — manufacturers and companies that build physical products - **Mission**: "Building the AI layer for physical engineering" — the company states: "We believe the companies building physical products deserve tools as intelligent as the products they build." ## Products & Services The EGI Platform ("Engineering Automation") is the core offering, a SaaS/AI platform with four major modules: - **Production-ready drawings from CAD**: Instantly generates GD&T technical drawings with accurate views and dimensions, AI-assisted feature detection/annotation, and standards-compliant output — eliminating manual drafting bottlenecks. - **Workstep sequences**: Automatically generates optimized workstep sequencing and production plans from CAD geometry, with interference/tooling clearance validation and automated diff analysis between model revisions. - **Product catalogs from CAD**: Generates precise 2D and 3D product catalogs directly from CAD designs, ready to publish when designs are finalized. - **Technical manuals**: Produces operator and service manuals in multiple languages with full technical precision, no lost context or manual reformatting between revisions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric (Private)**: Total funding not disclosed — company site confirms "top VCs" backing as of 2025 but does not name investors or amounts - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named publicly on the company site; investors described only as "Top VCs" - **Growth Signals**: - Research began at MIT CSAIL in 2022; incorporated late 2023 - First enterprise customer landed in 2024 - Platform expansion and VC backing in 2025 - Actively hiring across engineering, product, and research (open roles listed on Lever) - Leadership team includes executives formerly at Mercari, Samsung, PayPal, Apple, Honda Drivemode, Flexport, Rakuten, and Viki ## Competitive Advantages - **MIT CSAIL research origin**: Born from a research project at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, giving the company deep academic credibility in AI, computer graphics, and digital fabrication. - **Deep technical rigor**: The team describes itself as "scientists and engineers first" — every feature is grounded in research and validated against real manufacturing workflows before reaching customers. - **Factory-floor domain depth**: Years spent understanding the specific constraints of physical product companies — the platform reflects real manufacturing reality, not just lab conditions. - **Human-in-the-loop philosophy**: AI is designed to "remove toil, not replace judgment" — engineers stay in control while automation handles tedious work, a differentiator for adoption in regulated/enterprise environments. - **Strong founder pedigree**: CEO Dr. Mok Oh (MIT Ph.D., former executive at Mercari, Samsung, PayPal), Chief Scientist Prof. Wojciech Matusik (MIT CSAIL professor, former Adobe/Disney Research), and Head of Research Michael Foshey (10+ years at MIT CSAIL in design/manufacturing AI). ## Strategic Focus - Scaling the EGI platform from first enterprise customer (2024) to broader market expansion (2025 onward) - Automating the full engineering documentation workflow "from design to manufacturing" - Growing the team across engineering, product, and research while maintaining a remote-friendly, research-driven culture - Standardizing documentation processes at scale for manufacturers (reducing errors, removing manual drafting bottlenecks) ## Why Work Here - **Small team, hard problems**: The careers page explicitly pitches "a small team solving hard problems at the intersection of mechanical engineering and AI." - **Remote-friendly**: All open roles are open to remote candidates unless otherwise noted. - **Open roles**: Hiring across engineering, product, and research (posted on the Lever careers page under "Foundation LLM Technologies"). - **Research-backed culture**: Founders and team come from MIT CSAIL and leading tech companies (Mercari, Samsung, PayPal, Apple, Flexport, Honda Drivemode), combining academic rigor with scaled product experience. - **Mission-driven work**: Opportunity to build AI infrastructure for an underserved market — physical product/manufacturing companies that still generate documentation by hand. - **Global, multilingual team**: Team members span the US and Asia and bring experience leading global engineering and product organizations. ## Sources 1. [foundationegi.com — Homepage](https://www.foundationegi.com/) 2. [foundationegi.com — About](https://www.foundationegi.com/about) 3. [foundationegi.com — Careers](https://foundationegi.com/careers) 4. [foundationegi.com — Company/Team](https://www.foundationegi.com/company) 5. 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