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Founding Engineer

ManaflowSoftware
Pay
$130K–$170K
per year
Work mode
On-site
Full Time
Level
Senior

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What you need

  • 10B+ tokens daily with AI coding agents
  • Swift/AppKit, C++, Rust, Go, or Chromium experience
  • Open-source maintainer or former founder
  • Ships complete products with strong design taste
  • Contributes cmux PRs or custom plugins

What you'll do

  • Build frontier devtools across full stack (Swift, Rust, C++, Go)
  • Invent AI-powered developer product for coding agents
  • Own features end-to-end with user feedback loops
  • Dogfood and test cmux by building cmux

cmux is a native macOS terminal built on Ghostty, designed for running multiple AI coding agents in parallel. Hundreds of thousands of developers use cmux to drive their agentic coding workflows.

Check us out at cmux.com and on GitHub.

We're hiring talented founding engineers to help us build the future of coding with AI.

What you'll do

- Build frontier devtools across the stack: cmux macOS (Swift/AppKit), cmux TUI (Rust), cmux Windows/Linux (C++/Chromium), cmux iOS, cmux Cloud, subrouter (Go), chatmux, and more

- Help invent the most useful product for developers to do work with AI

- Own products and features end to end, including user feedback loops

- Dogfood, test, and verify constantly; use cmux to build cmux

Who we're looking for

No hard requirements. We want talented builders from any background.

Things that make us extra excited:

- You use 10B+ tokens a day

- All-rounders and creative problem solvers

- Great design taste and care for the craft

- Swift/AppKit, C++, Rust, Go, or Chromium experience

- Open-source maintainers, former founders, people who ship complete products

- Sending cmux PRs for us to review or demoing custom cmux plugins / workflows

Details

- Compensation: 130k - 170k + 0.5% - 1.5% equity

- Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance

- Location: San Francisco

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About Manaflow

Manaflow is an open-source applied AI lab building AI dev tools. We're the creators of cmux, the open source terminal for coding agents.

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