Founding Full-Stack Engineer
Summary
Founding full-stack engineer at an early-stage industrial AI startup building smart-glasses wearables that give field technicians real-time assistance. Owns the product layer end to end — cloud services for video ingestion, APIs, data systems, and companion mobile/desktop apps — using TypeScript, Python, React, AWS/GCP, and Postgres.
About the Role
Join an early-stage industrial AI team building wearable products that help field technicians work with real-time assistance. You will own the product layer connecting smart glasses, cloud services, and companion apps, shaping the architecture and engineering practices as the team grows.
What You'll Do
Deliver the end-to-end experience across smart glasses, backend services, and companion applications.
Build cloud services for real-time video ingestion, APIs, and storage.
Own reliable, observable backend APIs and data systems used by devices and AI services.
Develop mobile and desktop tools for device setup, monitoring, and workflow configuration.
Create safe deployment and release processes for software running on hardware in the field.
Set product architecture and engineering practices, and troubleshoot issues across frontend, backend, and device layers.
What We're Looking For
Two to five years of post-graduate software engineering experience, ideally including early-stage startup work.
Experience building and shipping a scalable product from the ground up, owning backend, APIs, data, and user-facing applications.
Strong full-stack skills with technologies such as TypeScript, Python, React, React Native, Node.js, AWS, GCP, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker.
Ability to make sound architectural decisions independently and deliver products used by real customers.
Experience with real-time video, streaming, low-latency systems, AI product integrations, or mobile applications is valuable.
Frontend and UX sensibility, plus interest in wearable technology and industrial or critical-infrastructure use cases.
Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $180,000 to $240,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, United States, with at least five days per week on-site.
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