Founding Applied AI Engineer

Antes is a stealth, seed-stage startup building the AI hardware engineer for complex manufacturers, the AI-native equivalent of what Cursor and Claude Code are for software engineers, but for the people who build jet engines, cars, and aircraft (today still coordinated across thousands of engineers on spreadsheets). It's backed by General Catalyst and Exor, the parent of Ferrari and Stellantis, so the chairman of Ferrari is a backer.

The advisor and backer bench is extraordinary: the former head of the FAA, a chairman of the FCC, the chief counsel of NHTSA, a former president of Hyundai, the CTO of Caterpillar, a former CEO of Cummins, and Tesla's former chief engineer. Antes already has signed commercial deals with some of the world's biggest ODMs. The founding team sits at the intersection of AI, advanced engineering, and policy. CEO Rongfei Lu is a Stanford aerospace/robotics/AI engineer (Stanford AI Lab, denoising-diffusion papers) who's also a pilot and aircraft mechanic and led global legal-compliance product at Uber; his co-founder (CTO) built a turbine race car in college, worked on propulsion at Rocket Lab, and designed the autopilot for the America's Cup-winning Team New Zealand sailboats.

The wedge is engineering compliance: a Tesla car answers to ~a million safety regulations that translate into hard engineering

Antes is hiring its 4th engineer to join a tight three-person eng team (the CTO plus two founding engineers). This is a founding, high-ownership seat with two areas of need, and the person should ideally satisfy both, with priority set by their strengths. First, helping scale and run a large active pilot (~100 users, growing) with a major engineering manufacturer well. Second, and the priority, a new product direction toward the core vision: system modeling, i.e., building models of how a complex system's hardware, software, mechanical, electrical, fluidic, and thermal subsystems connect (think an engine), from design