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  • Cmux
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Full-Time
  • 30 days ago
  • $130,000 – $170,000
Cmux VERIFIED EMPLOYER

Founding Engineer.

Software Engineering & Dev Full-Time

Founding Engineer: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:This role is for a founding engineer building AI coding tools across macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, cloud, and terminal products.
  • The Person:The person will build products and features end to end, use cmux to build cmux, and constantly dogfood, test, and verify the product.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has Swift/AppKit, C++, Rust, Go, or Chromium experience and has shipped complete products.

About the role

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

We're hiring talented founding engineers to help us build the future of coding with AI.

What you'll do

- Build frontier devtools across the stack: cmux macOS (Swift/AppKit), cmux TUI (Rust), cmux Windows/Linux (C++/Chromium), cmux iOS, cmux Cloud, subrouter (Go), chatmux, and more

- Help invent the most useful product for developers to do work with AI

- Own products and features end to end, including user feedback loops

- Dogfood, test, and verify constantly; use cmux to build cmux

Who we're looking for

No hard requirements. We want talented builders from any background.

Things that make us extra excited:

- You use 10B+ tokens a day

- All-rounders and creative problem solvers

- Great design taste and care for the craft

- Swift/AppKit, C++, Rust, Go, or Chromium experience

- Open-source maintainers, former founders, people who ship complete products

- Sending cmux PRs for us to review or demoing custom cmux plugins / workflows

Details

- Compensation: 130k - 170k + 0.5% - 1.5% equity

- Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance

- Location: San Francisco

cmux is an open source native macOS terminal built on Ghostty. Vertical tabs, notification rings when agents need attention, split panes, and a CLI for programmability.

Published August 28, 2026
Location San Francisco, CA
Job Type Full-Time