Entrepreneur in Residence

Subcritical Systems, Inc. is a venture-backed startup in Austin, Texas focused on building accelerator-driven systems for clean power production. They are seeking an Entrepreneur in Residence to identify software and AI problems, build AI-driven workflows, and contribute to a significant energy project.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy AI-assisted CAD review pipelines that parse geometry and models, flag interface conflicts, and surface design violations across systems, sub-systems, and components
• Build LLM-powered tooling that integrates with CAD environments (Fusion 360, SolidWorks, NX) to accelerate documentation, BOM generation, and design change management
• Develop automated workflows to generate CAD models and associated drawings from engineering specifications and vendor data inputs
• Own the reliability and performance of design automation pipelines that directly gate our construction schedule
• Contribute to and extend SETH SSI’s internal Systems Engineering Thinker AI agent pipeline across engineering, operations, and deployment workstreams that automate design documentation
• Build agentic workflows for procurement analysis parsing RFP responses, surfacing schedule risks, and flagging vendor compliance gaps against programme requirements
• Develop AI tooling for accelerator subsystem commissioning support, including anomaly detection, parameter sweep analysis, and real-time operational monitoring interfaces
• Partner with the regulatory team to build AI-assisted tools for documentation drafting, compliance cross-referencing, and submission preparation
• Contribute to internal tooling infrastructure: version control for design artifacts, automated validation and consistency checking, and documentation generation
• Identify and pursue the highest-value workflow automation opportunities across the Energy Amplifier island and accelerator design workstreams and develop a spin-out thesis around the most promising software you build