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Frontend Software Engineer
Frontend Software Engineer at David AI, an audio training-data company for AI labs, building data-heavy interfaces that help users explore terabytes of audio datasets. Day to day: shipping polished UI features in Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind from a San Francisco office 5 days a week.
Full-Stack Engineer
Full-stack engineer at Helium, an AI startup whose SDK auto-generates and tests product experiences (onboarding/paywalls) for consumer apps like Calm. You'll ship Next.js frontend features and scalable Go backends serving millions daily, design data/ML training infrastructure, and own features end to end in-office in San Francisco Mon-Fri. Salary $150k-$250k plus 0.5-1.5% equity.
Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed
Forward Deployed Engineer at Chakra Labs, an early-stage AI startup building RL environments and trajectory datasets for frontier AI lab customers. You'd shape training data, handcraft RL tasks, and spin up customer-facing dashboards on tight timelines using TypeScript, Python, Go, Vercel, Supabase, and AWS/EKS, on-site in Flatiron, NYC.
Forward Deployed Engineer
Forward Deployed Engineer at Beacon Software, a software holding company: you embed with its portfolio companies, ship agentic LLM software into their live operations, and own outcomes end to end. Core stack is TypeScript/Python, React, SQL, LLM/eval tooling, plus Snowflake, Databricks and event-driven systems.
Senior/Staff Applied AI Engineer, Agent Harness
Build and own the core agent harness — execution loop, tool-use strategies, context construction, and release-gating evals — for Init's AI-coworker agent that automates IT work with security guarantees like per-task microVMs and model-blind credentials. In-person role in San Francisco using Python/TypeScript and modern LLM tooling.
Senior/Staff Security Engineer
A senior/staff security engineer at Init owns the end-to-end security posture of its AI IT-agent product — application, cloud, network, and the agent itself — leading threat modeling, building in-product security primitives (isolation, credential handling, approval gates), and writing the security architecture doc that gates enterprise deals. Requires strong app/infra security skills with producti