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Founding Chromium Engineer

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Salary

$130,000 - 170,000/ year

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Description

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

Check us out at the company's site (the company's site) and on GitHub (the company's site).

We're hiring a founding engineer to own the company on Windows (and Linux) - built on our own fork of Chromium.

Responsibilities

  • Own our Chromium fork: track upstream, rebase cleanly, carry the company patches (window/input/render integration, terminal surface, agent UI)
  • Own the company on Windows/Linux end to end: C++, installer, auto-update, crash reporting
  • Port the Ghostty-based terminal core and agent-orchestration features (vertical tabs, notification rings, splits, CLI) to Windows
  • Make performance feel native: startup time, GPU rendering, input latency
  • Dogfood, test, and verify constantly
  • Who we're looking for
  • Deep C++ and real Chromium work - ideally you've maintained a fork: carrying patches, rebasing on upstream milestones, debugging in content/ or blink
  • Rust a big plus (our TUI and networking daemon are Rust)
  • You've shipped or maintained a real Windows desktop app
  • Bonus: upstream Chromium contributions, Swift/AppKit curiosity, open-source maintainer, former founder
  • Details
  • Compensation: $130k - $170k + 0.5% - 1.5% equity
  • Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Location: San Francisco

Requirements

  • Experience: Any (new grads ok)
  • Visa: Will sponsor

Where you’d work

From the office

The office

Visa sponsored

About the company

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Office in San Francisco, United States

Your chances

Likely still hiring, not crowded yet, and a person reads your message.

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  • 9 good signs
  • 4 red flags

Still hiring?

13 checks

Likely active

In its favour4

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 4 h agoModerate evidence
  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
  • States its salarySlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • A hiring contact is attached to itSlight evidence

Against it2

  • None of the company's 3 open roles was posted in the last 2 weeksModerate evidence
  • Posted 4 weeks agoSlight evidence

How crowded?

7 checks

Low

In its favour5

  • You can message the hiring contact and skip the queueModerate evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
  • Senior level: far fewer people qualifySlight evidence
2 moreFewer
  • Asks for Swift, which only 1% of open roles doSlight evidence
  • Pays below most similar roles, which thins the crowdSlight evidence

Against it2

  • Open for 4 weeks: applications have had time to pile upModerate evidence
  • Sponsors visas: applicants from abroad compete for it tooSlight evidence

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Details11 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment
Tech stack
  • Swift
  • C++
  • Rust
  • Linux
Type
Full-time
Equity
Equity offered
Specialty
Backend
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Development
Specialty
Backend
Tech stack
  • Swift
  • C++
  • Rust
  • Linux

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$130,000 - 170,000 / year
Pay period
Annual
Equity
Equity offered

Employment

Type
Full-time

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