Founding Engineer

About this role

Our client is looking for exceptional generalist founding engineers (full-stack, AI, etc.) who are scrappy, have taste, and love building things to create the next generational company.

What you'll do

• build and ship micro apps every week with real users, encoding your processes into better and better automated workflows until it is fully automated
• work in close collaboration with the rest of the founding team
• run rapid experiments and decisively double down on what works while cutting what doesn’t

Seniority

• 1 -​ 5 years of experience as a software engineer with experience building AI-​driven products (preference for 2+ YOE).​

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Work experience

• Experience shipping products / features from ideation to real users with significant traction.
• Previous founder or early-​stage startup experience strongly preferred.​ Bonus for YC or a16z alums.​

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.​
• Degree from a top-​tier university (e.​g.​,​ Berkeley,​ Stanford,​ CMU).​

Hard skills

• Proficiency in agentic development,​ specifically designing and building orchestration pipelines across multiple agents,​ tools,​ and services.​
• Proficiency across the full stack with a backend focus (Python,​ JavaScript,​ Kotlin,​ Go are all acceptable).​
• Active user of modern AI tooling (e.​g.​,​ Claude Code,​ Cursor,​ etc.​)

Miscellaneous

• Must have at least one signal of excellence (e.​g.​,​ strong schoo,​ reputable companies,​ impressive fellowships,​ YC founder,​ etc.​)

Salary

$180K - $225K

Equity

1.0-1.5%

On-site work policy

5 days/week onsite in our SoMa office

Visa sponsorship available

Transfers available

Full-time position