Founding Engineer
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About the Role
Join an early-stage AI software team building tools for leaders across public and private sectors. As a founding engineer, you will work closely with engineering and product teammates, own work across the full stack and AI agent layer, and learn directly from customers.
What You'll Do- Build and maintain product features end to end across databases, backend services, and frontend interfaces using Python, React, and AWS.
- Develop and improve production AI agents using LangChain, LangGraph, and the Deep Agents framework.
- Rebuild and own core product experiences, including onboarding and other non-agent features.
- Join customer calls and support conversations to troubleshoot issues and understand how people use the product.
- Help establish product and engineering processes as an early team member.
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience building and delivering production systems.
- Hands-on experience building a production AI agent or LLM-based system, and the ability to explain its purpose, design, and testing approach.
- Strong proficiency in Python, React, and AWS.
- Experience building full-stack features across databases, backend, and frontend, including product surfaces beyond AI.
- Interest in broad ownership and comfort working directly with customers.
- Startup experience and familiarity with regulated sectors such as fintech, government technology, or healthcare are helpful.
- Must be a U.S. citizen. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Base salary: $180,000 to $220,000 annually.
LocationOn-site in San Francisco, California, with flexibility for occasional remote days.