Asterope is building foundational performance and efficiency software for the way modern hardware actually runs. We're early, we're quiet, and we're working with a small number of partners.
Power, compute and memory are all scarce and getting more expensive, with multi-year lead times. Adding more capacity isn't a near-term option — so the pressing question is how much useful work the hardware already on the floor can deliver.
The biggest near-term efficiency wins live in how software meets the machine — not in waiting years for more capacity to come online.
Modern infrastructure is no longer one kind of processor. We design for a world where workloads span very different hardware.
Co-author of The Design & Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System and the long-running "Kode Vicious" columnist for ACM Queue / CACM. Two decades of authority in low-level systems and performance.
FreeBSD Foundation board member and former Core Team. PhD candidate at Yale (systems & databases); Industrial Visitor at the University of Cambridge. Has built trading systems at Hudson River Trading and shipped code on NASA missions.
Repeat founder with a completed exit — founder & CEO of Borneo, a data-security platform acquired by Atlassian in 2025.
Two decades of senior engineering leadership at Uber, Meta and Yahoo, building infrastructure and data platforms at hyperscaler scale. Delivered engineering and security for the Facebook and Uber IPOs. Board member, HTX (Singapore).
We're a small founding team of compiler, systems and hardware people. Every seat owns a real surface from day one. If you work close to the metal and want to build something durable, we'd like to talk.
Small team, real scope. Every person owns a surface end to end — not a queue of tickets someone else defined.
We go deep where it counts. We want systems people who care how the machine actually behaves, not just how the framework wraps it.
Strong opinions, low ego. We hire on merit and argue our way to the right answer — then commit to it together.
Turn deep research into shipped product — and strong individuals into a team.
This seat owns how we ship — build, delivery and quality — and, just as much, hiring and growing the team that does it.
Set technical direction on our hardest systems and performance problems.
A senior individual-contributor seat for someone who wants to shape the hardest parts of the system, hands-on, and pull the technical bar up around them.
Own the compiler and runtime core — code generation that meets the machine it runs on.
The core of the product finds a better-compiled version of a function for the hardware in front of us — and does it while the program runs. You own that engine: the compiler, the runtime, and the tooling that keeps it fast and correct.
Own how we see the machine, how we act on it — and how it stays reliable across a fleet.
We drive software with live signals from the hardware — and it has to hold up across large production fleets, not one box on a bench. You build the layer that reads those signals, acts on them safely, and keeps them reliable at scale.
Take our work onto GPUs and FPGAs — multi-target, not just one vendor.
A modern box has more than a CPU, and the interesting work is making the system use the right silicon well — live, across a range of accelerators, not one vendor's stack.
Turn systems wins into end-to-end results on real inference workloads.
Efficiency only matters if it shows up on real serving traffic. You connect low-level systems work to end-to-end inference results on production serving stacks.
Land the result inside the customer's environment — half engineer, half closer.
Pilots succeed or fail on the ground, inside someone else's production. You embed, integrate, and make the result real and reproducible on their fleet.
Give the founders leverage through fundraising and the first pilots.
A small team moving fast needs one person who makes everything else run.
Don't see your exact seat? If you're a compiler, systems or hardware person who wants real scope early, reach out anyway — careers@asterope.ai.
We'd like to hear from teams that run large compute fleets, people who optimize infrastructure for a living, and engineers who want to build foundational systems software from the ground up.
hello@asterope.ai →