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Founding Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area Full-time On-site $150k — $300k per year 09/07/2026 Job ID: 000116
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AI-powered products retrieval memory agent frameworks context engineering

Summary

What you’ll impact

Our company is seeking founding engineers who have built end‑to‑end AI‑powered products and can discuss advanced AI concepts. The role involves designing and shipping real‑world AI systems in fast‑moving startup environments, with compensation ranging from $150k to $300k+ plus equity.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

  • Build AI-powered products end-to-end, not just prototypes, but systems handling real users
  • Talk fluently about retrieval, memory, agent frameworks, context engineering, eval pipelines and anything else at the cutting edge
  • Combine strong software engineering fundamentals with deep awareness of what's happening at the frontier of LLMs and agentic systems
  • Thrive in startup environments where the problem is ambiguous and the team is small
  • Screening conversation looking for communication skills, cultural fit, genuine curiosity about AI
  • Technical deep-dive talks on architecture thinking, how you'd design an AI system for a real problem
  • Coding or pairing sessions building

Requirements

What you’ll bring

  • Have built AI-powered products end-to-end, not just prototypes, but systems handling real users
  • Can talk fluently about retrieval, memory, agent frameworks, context engineering, eval pipelines and anything else at the cutting edge
  • Combine strong software engineering fundamentals with deep awareness of what's happening at the frontier of LLMs and agentic systems
  • Thrive in startup environments where the problem is ambiguous and the team is small
  • Have 2-8 years of experience, ideally with experience at at least one high-growth company

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