Founding Engineer

About the Role

This is a founding engineer role at an early-stage AI startup building intelligent agent platforms for top-tier insurance carriers. You will own large swaths of the product end-to-end, working at the intersection of LLMs, unstructured data, and complex enterprise workflows where getting the answer right really matters.

What You'll Do

• Build new AI agents and product features from scratch, owning entire modules from customer discovery through production deployment.
• Work on-site with enterprise customers to deeply understand their workflows, unstructured data, and pain points.
• Design and iterate on eval frameworks to ensure AI agents produce accurate, reliable outputs in specialized regulated domains.
• Build backends that ingest, structure, and reason over large volumes of unstructured data using LLMs.
• Act as a full-stack problem solver: writing code, conducting user research, self-educating on domain topics, and doing whatever it takes to make customers successful.

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years of experience building and shipping production LLM or AI agent systems.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern backend development.
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, eval design, context construction, and agentic workflow design.
• Background at an early-stage or high-growth startup, with clear evidence of shipping something real and genuinely hard.
• Demonstrated standout achievement: competitive athletics, academic competitions, founding or joining a startup early, open source with real users, or equivalent.
• Actively uses agentic engineering tools (such as AI-assisted coding environments) as a core part of your workflow.
• Comfortable working directly with enterprise customers and open to occasional on-site travel.
• Experience in regulated or data-intensive domains such as insurance, fintech, healthtech, or legaltech is a strong plus.
• CS degree or STEM equivalent preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $180,000 to $280,000 USD annually, plus equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, USA. Occasional travel to customer sites is expected.