Founding Software Engineer
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
16 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Founding Software Engineer San Francisco CA (In office - WFH Flex)
About us
Our partner is a seed-funded startup ($7M) building agentic AI systems that reason over large sets of unstructured data and ship real value to engineers. Youll work directly with the CEO/CTO and get fast user feedback as you build.
The role
Invent and build core product and systems from the ground up. Ship full-stack features end to end make agents not just smart but trusted and usable and help set engineering culture from day person in SF three days per week.
What youll do
Design and implement production agent workflows for unstructured data; own data ingestion evaluation loops and UX around agents.
- Build full-stack features across a React front end and Python services; iterate quickly with direct customer input.
- Establish reliability and performance baselines; instrument observe and improve the system as usage grows.
- Collaborate tightly with founders on product direction; create lightweight standards that scale the team.
You might be a fit if you have
- 3 years of software experience and a product mindset; you thrive in ambiguity and love shipping.
- Expertise with React and Python; comfort moving up and down the stack.
- Solid engineering fundamentals: testing observability performance data modeling.
- Work authorization in the US and availability to be in SF 3 days/week.
Nice to have
- Hands-on with LLMs/agents (prompting tools retrieval) vector search and safety/guardrails.
- Experience turning messy data into reliable product features.
Location and setup
San Francisco hybrid-in-office (3 days/week).
How to apply
Send a short note and links to shipped work or GitHub to Bonus: include one example where you improved reliability or UX trust for an AI-driven feature.
Required Experience:
IC