Founding sr. machine learning engineer: no salary only equity

About Us & The Role At Truxt.ai, we're not just another startup—we're solving large enterprises' biggest data paradoxes and pioneering the world's first fully autonomous software operations. As an early-stage company driven by a meaningful mission, we seek exceptional engineering talent who values purpose, long-term impact, and significant equity ownership over traditional salary compensation. As a Founding Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll be instrumental in architecting our AI-driven autonomous systems, directly influencing our core ML infrastructure, model deployment strategies, and data engineering decisions. You won't just be implementing models—you'll have the freedom to research, experiment, and deploy cutting-edge ML solutions while building substantial ownership in our company's future. What Makes This Opportunity Different: Freedom to Execute: Set your own goals, timelines, and approaches without bureaucratic hurdles. True Ownership: Founding engineers receive substantial equity packages (competitive with senior engineer salaries at scale), ensuring you directly benefit from the value you create. Technical Challenge: Solve complex real-world problems with meaningful impact. Impact-Driven Culture: Directly influence product direction, company culture, and growth strategy. Transparent Leadership: Collaborative environment, weekly strategy sessions, and full visibility into company health and roadmap. Exponential Upside Potential: Your equity stake grows with company success—potential for life-changing returns as we scale. Apply Only If You: Believe your work should be meaningful and aligned with your values. Seek freedom to turn cutting-edge research and ideas into reality. Are tired of incremental feature development on uninspiring products. Want to build something from scratch with significant technical challenges. Dream big and prioritize ownership, autonomy, and exponential growth potential over guaranteed salary. Thrive without hand-holding and proactively create your own direction. Are financially positioned to accept equity-only compensation during our early growth phase. Our Promise to You Zero Bureaucracy: No VP approvals or innovation theater—just you, meaningful problems, and the freedom to solve them. Transparent Leadership: Open, collaborative culture with weekly strategy sessions. Impact-Driven Culture: Your voice directly shapes our product and strategy. Significant Equity Package: Founding-level equity stake that reflects your early-stage commitment and risk. Compensation Structure Base Salary: Rs. 0 (Equity-only position) until we close Funding, Better than market average post Funding. Future Upside: Participation in all future funding rounds and liquidity events What We're Looking For: ML Expertise Passionate Builder: Proactive problem-solver who identifies, iterates, and ships solutions. ML Veteran: 5+ years building and deploying production ML systems at scale Deep Learning Specialist: Hands-on experience with transformer architectures, LLMs, and generative AI MLOps Mastery: Expert in ML pipeline orchestration, model monitoring, and A/B testing frameworks Programming Excellence: Proficiency in Python, with experience in Py Torch/Tensor Flow, and familiarity with systems languages (Go, Rust, C++) Technical Requirements: Enterprise AI: Experience deploying ML models in enterprise environments with strict SLAs Autonomous Systems: Background in reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, or autonomous decision-making Data Engineering: Comfortable with large-scale data processing, feature engineering, and real-time inference Cloud ML Platforms: Experience with AWS Sage Maker, Google AI Platform, or Azure ML Model Optimization: Knowledge of model compression, quantization, and edge deployment Ready to Build Something Extraordinary? If you're done optimizing ad algorithms or CRUD apps and eager to tackle genuinely impactful problems while building true ownership in a revolutionary company, send us your profile. Accelerated Application Process for ML Engineers: To expedite your application and demonstrate your problem-solving skills, please complete one of the following: Kaggle Competition: Participate in any active Kaggle competition and share your Research Contribution: Share a recent ML project, paper, or open-source contribution you're proud of "No great engineer ever joined a startup just for salary—join us for the mission, the freedom, the opportunity to turn your boldest ideas into reality, and the chance to own a meaningful piece of the future we're building together."