Founding Engineer – AI Automation for SOX Compliance (Pre-Seed, San Francisco)

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The role

This company is building AI automation for SOX compliance testing. They're replacing manual audit work with a fully agentic approach, from evidence management to auditable decision logs. Backed by leading investors at pre-seed, the founding team brings deep experience in AI and scaling startups.

As a Founding Engineer, you'll be one of the first hires, owning the core product's backbone. This means genuine end-to-end responsibility: data processing, UI, agent harness, evaluation, and deployment. You'll shape the product roadmap directly with the founders, balancing customer needs with long-term health. This isn't a role where you hand off work; it's where you build, launch, and scale, prioritising proven methods over novel tech for its own sake.

The work

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• Scope, build, and launch features that automate SOX audit workflows end-to-end.
• Design and implement the core agentic system, from evidence ingestion to auditable decision logs.
• Own the full stack: data processing, UI, agent harness, evaluation, and deployment.
• Influence product strategy and roadmap alongside the founders, integrating customer feedback.
• Scale the core audit product to handle significant customer loads and complex data.
  
  

What You Bring

• Proven track record building, launching, and scaling production systems.
• Experience developing AI-driven solutions, pushing the boundaries of current models.
• Pragmatic engineering approach: you value proven methods over novelty, balancing research curiosity.
• Comfort operating with high autonomy, owning problems end-to-end in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Willingness to be client-facing when required.

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• Commitment to relocate from London to San Francisco by Fall 2026 and work in-person. Visa support provided.
  
  

Why apply through Dex

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