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The Software Engineer will provide technical support to customers, collaborate with engineering teams, and drive customer success initiatives while leveraging Python and SQL expertise.

Drive enterprise sales pipeline through outbound prospecting and inbound qualification. Research accounts, conduct discovery conversations, generate qualified leads and meetings, support Enterprise Sales on live calls and pitches, use AI tools to scale outreach and automate workflows, collaborate cross-functionally, and maintain accurate data in Salesforce to meet individual and team quota.

Lead architecture and RTL development for high-speed Ethernet and AI scale-up connectivity ASICs. Define microarchitecture, packet processing, DMA/RDMA acceleration, QoS, congestion management, and hardware/software interfaces. Drive designs from architecture through RTL, verification, tapeout, and post-silicon bring-up while mentoring senior engineers and aligning cross-functional teams to performance, power, and manufacturability targets.

Lead design and build of an end-to-end AI contract-review agent: prompt orchestration, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, web UI and tooling, data/model infra, deployment (CI/CD/cloud), and product-driven features like assumption mapping and contract diagnostics.

Run full-cycle recruiting for mission-driven clients: own searches from kickoff to onboarding, partner with hiring managers, build pipelines with proactive sourcing beyond LinkedIn, manage ATS pipelines in Ashby, and improve hiring processes and candidate experience. Support occasional people-operations projects and contribute to recruiting playbooks and tooling improvements.

Create high-performing animated and static marketing creatives for paid channels. Own ideation through final output, including asset creation/sourcing, animation, editing, sound, and iteration based on performance to drive installs and engagement.

Lead Zeno's legal partnerships and legal affairs in Germany by building relationships with law firms, notaries, and legal departments; advise on commercial, regulatory, compliance and product-related legal matters; develop internal policies and governance; collaborate with product and engineering on AI, data protection and responsible product development; represent Zeno in market and shape German go-to-market strategy.

Lead and execute user acquisition and performance marketing to scale an AI-powered crypto search platform. Design growth loops, run growth-hacking experiments, optimize CAC/LTV, partner with product and engineering to integrate growth features, and manage the growth tech stack and analytics to improve onboarding and retention.

Develop and execute PR strategies to increase media visibility; build relationships with tech journalists and influencers; craft press releases, pitches, and media kits; secure interviews, features, and opinion pieces; and monitor and report on media coverage and campaign effectiveness.

Open invitation to propose a custom role at Restate, a Rust-based durable runtime startup. Candidates should highlight strengths in backend infrastructure, durable execution, or AI agent workflows. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis; matching profiles will be contacted. Restate operates remotely in Europe and the US and does not sponsor visas.