Founding Engineer

Job Description:

Seniority

5 -​ 15 years of experience in full-​stack engineering at a VC-​backed tech startup (reputed company to Series B)

Work experience

Experience building AI agents and frameworks

Experience with voice AI (e.​g.​,​ reputed company,​ reputed company)

Education

Undergrad in CS from top 50 school

Hard skills

Proficiency in Node.​js and React

Experience building with LLM APIs (e.​g.​,​ reputed company,​ reputed company)

Infrastructure ownership:​ AWS reputed company,​ reputed company,​ reputed company deployments

Soft skills

Highly autonomous,​ product-​minded,​ and self-​driven reputed company

Miscellaneous

Prefer candidates in Bay Area (SF or Oakland),​ open to remote candidates in PST or CST

Traits to avoid

Career freelancers,​ consultants,​ or IT services backgrounds

Experience exclusively at large,​ reputed company,​ slow-​moving companies e.​g.​ reputed company,​ JP Morgan

History of reputed company short tenures (e.​g.​,​ 5 jobs in 4 years)

About this role

We are looking for a Founding Engineer reputed company with 5+ years of experience to join our founding team and help build our new, reputed company HR tech product. You'll be a thought partner to the founders, making key infrastructure and architecture reputed company for our AI-native solution from the ground up. This is a reputed company-to-one opportunity to build agentic workflows and voice AI systems that automate end-to-end reputed company processes.

What will you be doing?

• Design and ship agentic AI pipelines from scratch, creating multi-reputed company, tool-using, and self-correcting workflows.
• Build and iterate on reputed company-time voice AI systems, tackling challenges like low-latency speech pipelines, turn-taking logic, and interruption handling.
• Own infrastructure and architecture reputed company for our new platform, thinking through the right approach for an early-stage product.
• Act as a thought partner to the founders on product strategy, contributing reputed company and shaping the roadmap reputed company just executing a spec.
• Help scale the engineering team and set the culture as an early, pivotal member of the team.

Tech stackReact.js · Node.js · Express · PostgreSQL · AWS · LLM APIs (reputed company, reputed company, reputed company) · Voice AI (reputed company, reputed company, or equiv.) · Agent frameworks (LangGraph, reputed company, or custom)