Italy-based, with periodic on-sites on Milan · Direct report to the CTO Full-time, permanent contract
Agentic AI is transforming how software gets built, at a pace and depth no technology before it has matched. This is a once-in-a-generation opening for a new layer of software infrastructure to emerge. Ratel is going after it, positioning as a key infrastructure provider for how software will be built and scaled in the agentic era.
Our starting point: the context intelligence layer for AI agents. Instead of flooding an agent with every tool and piece of information available, Ratel ensures it only receives the context it actually needs: the right tools, skills, and memory, every time it reasons on a problem.
Less noise. Better decisions. Lower cost.
We're an early-stage, open-source company backed by best-in-class Italian and German VCs and angel investors.
The founding team:
Why the name “Ratel”? See below 👇
You'll be one of the first engineers building Ratel, the in-process retrieval engine that decides what an AI agent sees on every turn.
You take on the cross-cutting, high-leverage work: the parts of the system whose shape locks in everything around it. You partner directly with the CTO on technical direction.
You build in the open. Your code, your design docs, your trade-offs all land on a public repo.
An indicative, not exhaustive, list of what you'll own.