Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer at a prestigious AI startup in San Francisco. Build core intelligence platform from zero to production. Design and build systems, make architectural decisions, write software that ships. Expect ownership, leverage, and the chance to work on systems that actually matter.

Requirements

• 5–15 years of professional experience
• 5+ years in an engineering role
• Operated at senior scope in demanding environments
• Held a senior title at a company with a real hiring bar (e.g., FAANG, Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent)
• Experienced across multiple parts of the stack
• Comfortable operating without a playbook
• Calm under ambiguity, decisive under pressure
• Low ego, high standards, strong sense of ownership

Benefits

• Competitive founding-level ownership
• Rapid growth in scope and compensation as the company scales and delivers