Founding Engineer (AI Agents & Infrastructure)

coffeespace • San Francisco Bay Area

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AI Summary

Join as the first engineering hire to build the technical foundation for a company automating real-world economy integrations with AI agents. This role involves designing and building core infrastructure, AI agents, and developer-facing systems. Requires 2-5 years of startup experience, strong TypeScript skills, and a passion for building from scratch.

Key Highlights

First engineering hire with significant ownership and impact.

Builds the technical foundation for AI-powered enterprise integration solutions.

Work directly with experienced founders in a high-ownership culture.

Key Responsibilities

Design and build specialized AI agents that automate complex technical workflows.

Develop the core infrastructure that powers deployment, execution, monitoring, and reliability.

Own critical platform components from design through production.

Build developer-facing systems and internal platforms that enable rapid scaling.

Establish engineering best practices and technical standards.

Work directly with customers and founders to understand problems and shape product direction.

Make high-leverage architectural decisions across infrastructure, AI systems, and platform engineering.

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Technical Skills Required

TypeScript React Bun Effect-TS PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS

Benefits & Perks

$150K - $300K base salary

0.5% - 1.5% equity

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Nice to Have

Experience at a developer infrastructure company such as Vercel or similar platform-focused organizations.

Built personal projects, open-source tools, startups, or side projects demonstrating technical curiosity and initiative.

Experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure.

Job Description

About the job

Job Title: Founding Engineer

Salary: $150K - $300K base + 0.5% - 1.5% equity

Location: San Francisco, CA (5 days in-office)

Visa Sponsorship: Available on a case-by-case basis for exceptional candidates

Employment Type: Full-time

Company Description

This employer is building the digital backbone for the real economy.

The physical economy runs on thousands of disconnected systems across manufacturing, warehousing, trucking, logistics, and supply chain operations. Today, connecting these systems requires armies of consultants and custom integration projects that are rebuilt from scratch every time.

They are replacing that process with specialized AI agents.

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