Founding Engineer

This onsite opportunity in San Francisco offers a competitive annual package with USD 180,000 - 225,000, plus relocation support and visa sponsorship. You will join a well-funded AI startup backed by a16z and YC, building from the ground up as a generalist full‑stack engineer, delivering weekly micro apps to real users and encoding workflows into automation, reporting directly to the founder and CEO.

Benefits

• Fully onsite role in San Francisco (SoMa) with 5 days per week
• Relocation support available
• Visa sponsorship available

About the Company

Founded in 2026, the confidential AI startup is backed by a16z and other top-tier investors with 5.5 million dollars in backing. The company is pursuing a new paradigm for software creation by using AI agents to autonomously create and operate specialized software products at scale. The founding engineering team will comprise roughly 5 to 7 engineers, and the leadership team has previously scaled companies to 20 million dollars in ARR.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship weekly micro applications with real users, turning processes into automated workflows
• Collaborate closely with the founding team
• Run rapid experiments and decisively double down on effective approaches while pruning what doesn’t work

Requirements

• 1–5 years of software engineering experience building AI driven products
• Experience shipping products or features from ideation to real users with meaningful traction
• Proficiency in agentic development — designing and building orchestration pipelines across multiple agents, tools, and services
• Full stack proficiency with a backend focus
• Active user of modern AI tooling such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar
• At least one clear signal of excellence — hackathon wins, notable side projects, impressive fellowships, YC founder background, etc.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco

Technologies

• Python
• JavaScript
• Kotlin
• Go