Full-Time

Founding DevOps Engineer

Multiple Teams

Posted on 8/12/2025

Symbolica AI

Symbolica AI

11-50 employees

Category-theory based structured AI reasoning

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

This is an onsite role that can be based in either of our SF or London offices.

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Rust
Python
Go
DevOps
Linux/Unix
Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, or infrastructure roles
  • Proficient in cloud-native architectures
  • Experienced with Linux, containers, Kubernetes
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills
Responsibilities
  • Maintaining a central GitOps repository for stable and safe releases of products and internal research tooling with disaster recovery, security and automation in mind
  • Assist in managing multiple Kubernetes environments across cloud providers
  • Maintain and build the internal observability platform across all environments, covering everything from GPUs, AI applications and distributed backend systems
  • Aid in building comprehensive CI tests for GitOps repositories and promotion systems
  • Build and maintain different environments for research and client facing products according to best practices
  • Solid software engineering skills in Rust, Golang or Python
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in building, maintaining, or managing ML infrastructure using DevOps practices

Symbolica AI uses category theory to build AI models that reason with structured, inductive approaches rather than just predicting tokens. By embedding mathematical structure into inputs, outputs, and reasoning, the models can perform code synthesis and theorem proving more accurately and efficiently, while needing smaller datasets and less compute. The focus on compliance and interpretability aims to reduce hallucinations and produce explainable, verifiable results, which is important for sensitive fields like legal, medical, and financial services. Compared to traditional large language models, Symbolica emphasizes structured reasoning and transparency, enabling faster training and deployment and giving a competitive edge through reliability and formal reasoning capabilities.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$33M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2022

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Merck pilot doubles drug screening speed, cuts costs 20%.
  • Coding assistant pilots with Merck, JPMorgan; Q1 2026 release.
  • $20M bridge at $120M valuation from Khosla, General Catalyst.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI o1 surpasses in reasoning benchmarks, diverts pilots within 6-12 months.
  • Merck terminates pilot after 10% gains vs. AlphaCode 2 in 3-6 months.
  • DeepMind open-sources toolkit, commoditizes IP within 12-18 months.

What makes Symbolica AI unique

  • Symbolica leverages category theory for structured inductive reasoning beyond token prediction.
  • Neurosymbolic models outperform OpenAI’s o1 by 15% in Alzheimer’s molecular simulations.
  • Eradicates hallucinations via algebraic structures for verifiable AI outputs.

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Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-9%

1 year growth

-4%

2 year growth

11%
Diya TV
Apr 9th, 2024
Vinod Khosla backs Symbolica AI with $33 million investment

SAN FRANCISCO (Diya TV) - Vinod Khosla, renowned for his early investment in OpenAI, is doubling down on AI innovation with Symbolica, a startup launching today with a $33 million Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures.

SiliconANGLE Media
Apr 9th, 2024
Beyond Transformers: Symbolica launches with $33M to change the AI industry with symbolic models

Beyond Transformers: Symbolica launches with $33M to change the AI industry with symbolic models - SiliconANGLE

VentureBeat
Apr 9th, 2024
Move over, deep learning: Symbolica's structured approach could transform AI

In addition to its public launch, Symbolica revealed today it has raised $33 million in total funding (Series A + seed), led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Day One Ventures, General Catalyst, Abstract Ventures and Buckley Ventures.

Yahoo News Singapore
Apr 9th, 2024
Symbolica raises $31 million to develop AI systems to compete with OpenAI

Symbolica raises $31 million to develop AI systems to compete with OpenAI.

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