Software Engineer - All Inclusive

Software Engineer — 2 Weeks in Helsinki. Pre-Launch Hardware. Founding Track.Flights, own room, all food covered. Start as soon as you can get here.Pat Pending is building Limpet — a device that lets anyone seamlessly upgrade the storage of any laptop.Everyone who's been offered a pre-order has bought it within the day.We would rather fail as a company than adopt a subscription model and believe form can follow function so long as it is beautiful.The two weeksYou'd be at FR8 (fr8.so), a five-floor campus in Helsinki housing a competitively selected international group of start-ups, with demo day at Slush (slush.org) — the largest venture gathering in the world.Flights both ways, your own room, all food, two private chefs, sauna, gym, laundry taken care of. You bring a laptop.The work spans macOS and iOS, filesystem and device-level plumbing via Swift, making the whole thing demo-solid in front of a lot of people. What you'd get out of itThere are only a few of us, so you will start by building on the next iteration of Limpet straight away. Two weeks is also an audition, and we'll be straight about that: if it works, there's a real conversation about staying on — founding engineer, with a stake through our employee share pool. No promises on the outcome, only that the door is open and your name is on what ships.UsElliot and Jsun — design and engineering, AR/VR software projects with Apple, product and industrial design briefs with Sony and Kenwood.ApplyEmail contact@patpending.com with something you've built and your earliest availability. Happy to start with a call, and happy to tell you what it actually is on that call.