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Byterat

Benchling for battery companies

Founding Engineer

$130K - $180K / 1.50% - 2.50%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Penelope Jones
Penelope Jones
Founder

About the role

Byterat (YC W23) is the first intelligent data platform for battery R
&D teams to manage and analyze all their battery data in one place.
Byterat directly synchronizes data from lab hardware to the cloud and
analyzes it to unlock hidden insights connecting design to
performance.

OUR MISSION

  * Batteries play a fundamental role in tackling climate change.
    $73B was invested in US battery plants in 2022, and battery
    company revenue is expected to grow >5x over the next decade.
  * Global carmakers alone are forecast to spend $515B on electric
    vehicle and battery R&D by 2030. But battery engineers are
    currently underserved by software, relying on broken legacy
    products to analyze their data.
  * Byterat solves this problem with a modern cloud platform that
    allows teams to analyze data from thousands of parallel
    experiments and unlock previously hidden insights connecting
    battery design to performance.

THE ROLE

  * As one of Byterat's founding engineers, you will have the
    autonomy to design/implement cornerstones of the Byterat
    platform, spanning from client-facing UX, to backend
    infrastructure for data analysis, to ML models that predict
    battery performance.
  * You'll also be helping to shape an exceptional engineering
    culture at Byterat and cultivate practices that will set us up
    for success.

WHO YOU ARE

  * 3+ years software engineering experience, ideally in a "start-up"
    like environment where you have taken full ownership for projects
    and taken products from 0-1 and 1-10.
  * You care about the problems our customers face and are excited to
    distil their insights into tangible product improvements.
  * You are excited to move and grow fast, take ownership and
    challenge yourself in ways that are hard to replicate at other
    places.
  * You want to enjoy the journey and have fun along the way :-).

WHO YOU'LL BE JOINING

  * Penny: PhD in Physics from Cambridge, worked on ML models to
    analyze battery data and forecast performance.
  * Alpha: Physics faculty member at U. Cambridge, PhD in physics of
    batteries from Oxford, 60+ papers.
  * Shashank: Stanford CS, formerly AWS, part of team that won $250k
    Amazon Alexa prize.

OUR CURRENT TECH STACK

  * Django with heavy tasks on Lambda.
  * Next.js on TypeScript.
  * Docker compose for dev, AWS and Terraform for staging / prod.

About the interview

  * Intro call with a founder to get to know each other.
  * Coding challenge: we've distilled our platform to ~1k loc; the
    challenge is to tell us what the distilled platform does and
    implement a new feature. We usually run this as a take home
    assignment, though we can be flexible and run live instead. Once
    you've completed the challenge, we'll discuss your solution and
    approach to system design.
  * Meet our team (anyone you haven't met already in the previous
    rounds). We're looking for signals on how you'll complement our
    entire team, in terms of culture and technical strengths.
  * Offer!

About Byterat

We are building an end-to-end data platform for battery companies:
helping them collect all their data in one place, analyze it, and
accelerate their research with predictive ML. Our team is Penny - a
PhD in battery modeling, Alpha - a faculty member from University of
Cambridge, and Shashank - an ex-AWS software engineer.

$73B was invested in US battery plants in 2022, and battery company
revenue is expected to grow >5x over the next decade. To paraphrase
Paul Graham [1], people who work with batteries are important and so
the most important software for them will surely turn out to be
valuable.

[1] https://tinyurl.com/yj7huu8k

Byterat
Byterat
Founded:2021
Team Size:3
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Penelope Jones
Penelope Jones
Founder
  

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