We are seeking a talented founding engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience building AI-driven products and working in a startup environment. This role requires a strong technical background and the ability to work collaboratively with the founding team.
Key Highlights
Key Responsibilities
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Nice to Have
Job Description
Our stat-up client is looking for exceptional generalist founding engineers (full-stack, AI, etc.) who are scrappy, have taste, and love building things to create the next generational company.
What you'll do
- build and ship micro apps every week with real users, encoding your processes into better and better automated workflows until it is fully automated
- work in close collaboration with the rest of the founding team
- run rapid experiments and decisively double down on what works while cutting what doesn’t
Qualifications
Seniority
- 0 -​ 5 years of experience as a software engineer with experience building AI-​driven products.​
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Work experience
- Experience shipping products / features from ideation to real users with significant traction.​
- Previous founder or early-​stage startup experience strongly preferred.​ Bonus for YC or a16z alums.​
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Degree from a top-​tier university (e.​g.​,​ Berkeley,​ Stanford,​ CMU).​
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Hard skills
- Proficiency in agentic development,​ specifically designing and building orchestration pipelines across multiple agents,​ tools,​ and services.​
- Proficiency across the full stack with a backend focus (Python,​ JavaScript,​ Kotlin,​ Go are all acceptable).​
- Active user of modern AI tooling (e.​g.​,​ Claude Code,​ Cursor,​ etc.​)
Miscellaneous
- Must have at least one signal of excellence (e.​g.​,​ hackathon wins,​ side projects with significant traction,​ impressive fellowships,​ YC founder,​ etc.​)
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Salary : $180K - $225K Equity: 1.0-1.5%
Visa sponsorship available: Transfers available
On-site work policy: 5 days/week onsite in our client's SoMa office
What to ask candidates
• Describe an agentic system you've built. What were the agents, how did you coordinate, and what was the outcome for the end user?
• Where do you see your career going over the next 5 years?
• Can the candidate be on-site? If not, is the candidate willing to relocate?
• What is their salary expectation?
• How actively are they recruiting?
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