Founding Engineer (AI Systems)

coffeespace • San Francisco Bay Area

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AI Summary

Join a small, highly technical team building intelligent systems that automate complex decision-making for manufacturers and industrial companies. As a Founding Engineer, you'll work across backend systems, infrastructure, data-intensive workflows, and AI-powered decision engines. You'll help build systems that combine large-scale industrial data, agent-based reasoning, optimization algorithms, and simulation to solve operational problems.

Key Highlights

Work on genuinely difficult engineering problems at the intersection of AI agents, optimization, simulation, and large-scale industrial systems

Build alongside a talent-dense team with backgrounds spanning startups, robotics, aerospace, and world-class engineering organizations

Help redefine an industry that has seen little fundamental software innovation in decades, with enormous market potential and immediate customer impact

Key Responsibilities

Design and build backend systems, APIs, orchestration layers, and data infrastructure powering AI-driven decision engines

Develop production-grade agentic workflows that combine reasoning, optimization, and operational data to automate complex business decisions

Work directly with customers to understand operational challenges, gather feedback, and rapidly ship solutions that deliver measurable value

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Technical Skills Required

Python Backend engineering Cloud infrastructure Containerization Databases Modern developer tooling

Benefits & Perks

$150K-$250K base + competitive equity

Visa sponsorship and relocation support available

6 days in-office

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Nice to Have

Experience building agentic systems, AI products, orchestration frameworks, or decision-support systems

Familiarity with optimization, simulation, operations research, or industrial workflows

Job Description

About the job

Job Title: Founding Engineer (AI Systems)

Salary: $150K-$250K base + competitive equity

Location: San Francisco, CA (6 days in-office)

Visa sponsorship and relocation support available

Company Description

Venture-backed startup building the decision intelligence layer for industrial operations.

Manufacturing companies still rely on human operators to make thousands of operational decisions every day. Planning production, allocating resources, managing constraints, and responding to changing conditions often happens through spreadsheets, tribal knowledge, and manual processes.

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