Senior Software Engineer / Founding Engineer

About daicon

We are a Zurich-based innovative software company bringing AI to structural engineers. Our agentic AI supports the planning and maintenance of buildings and other infrastructure. Our technology comprises deterministic tools and physics-based AI and delivers results that are mechanically sound, traceable and verifiable. We are closing the gap between growing demand for complex structural engineering work and shrinking numbers of structural engineers.

Our team combines cutting-edge AI research with decades of structural engineering practice. We tested our technology on real structures. Now we turn our technology into products for our customers, and we are looking for an experienced software engineer who wants to build and shape these products together with us.

What you will do

• Lead daicon’s software development and operations as we turn our technology into robust, scalable products: databases, agentic framework, production cloud environments.
• Work end-to-end: develop, ship, operate, improve.
• Work hand in hand with our structural engineering experts and AI developers, and with the customers who use the products.
• Help build and lead the software engineering team as we grow.

What we’re looking for

• MSc in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience building and operating software products.
• Hands-on experience bringing agentic AI systems into production: harnesses, orchestration, tool use, retrieval and evals. Not just calling LLM APIs.
• Experience with DevOps (including CI/CD) and cloud infrastructure (Azure or a comparable platform).
• Working style: rigorous, autonomous and proactive. You care whether the result is correct, not only whether it runs. You are comfortable making decisions, and you figure out what is worth building rather than waiting for detailed instructions.
• Founder mentality: highly motivated, impact-driven and entrepreneurial. You want to build something that matters and move quickly. You want to build the company with us, not just a feature.
• Fluent with AI coding tools.
• Very good English and/or German.

Why join us

• Join a scalable vertical AI company and shape its technical foundation.
• Build from Zurich. No need to move to the Bay Area to work on frontier deep tech.
• Competitive salary and high degree of autonomy, influence and responsibility.
• An ambitious team of experts in their fields.
• A fast-expanding AI application field with big and visible impact on the built environment.
• Benefit from the company’s success through share options.