Join the founding engineering team of a Y Combinator–backed AI startup building brand intelligence tooling at the intersection of AI research, product, and engineering. As a Founding Engineer, you'll have outsized ownership and impact, working directly with customers and leadership to ship end-to-end features in a fast-moving environment.
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Join the founding engineering team of a Y Combinator–backed AI startup building brand intelligence tooling at the intersection of AI research, product, and engineering. This company helps brands understand how large language models perceive and talk about them — and how to shape that narrative. As a Founding Engineer, you'll have outsized ownership and impact, working directly with customers and leadership to ship end-to-end features in a fast-moving environment.
What You'll Do
- Own problems end-to-end — from high-level customer insight through research and infrastructure.
- Maintain a close feedback loop with customers and the executive team, shipping quickly and iteratively.
- Help shape the culture, patterns, and practices of a brand-new engineering team.
- Continuously reinvent best practices for building alongside AI agents as a core part of the development workflow.
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Required:
- 1+ years of experience on an engineering team (2+ preferred); includes at least one stint of 18+ months in a strong engineering environment (scale-up or startup).
- Proficiency with React, Python, Terraform, and AWS.
- Comfortable working full-stack — from customer-facing UI all the way down to infrastructure.
- Experience building agentic systems.
- Strong product sense and design intuition; able to translate customer needs into shipped features.
- Startup experience or self-driven personal projects that demonstrate initiative and high agency.
- US citizen or eligible to work in the US (visa sponsorship available).
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- Direct experience working with customers.
- Scientific or AI research background, especially in AI interpretability.
- Eagerness to adopt and adapt to AI-powered coding tools and emerging engineering workflows.
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- Salary: $150,000 – $250,000 USD annually
- Early-stage equity
- Visa sponsorship available
This is a full-time, on-site role based in San Francisco, CA. Remote work is not available for this position.
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