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Founding Engineer

The Limited

Overview You’ll build the agent and the systems powering it: the harness, agent memory, actors, integrations and automations, permissions, sandboxes, and infrastructure. Responsibilities Develop and operate the backend components that power the agent and its ecosystem. Qualifications Built production ready distributed backend systems. Strong TypeScript. Effect-TS experience is a plus; willingness to learn it is required. Care about strict typing and clean abstractions. Shipped end-to-end before Passion for AI Bonus Experience with agents, runtimes, or AI infrastructure. You’ve written your own harness or framework for something nontrivial. Benefits Health, dental, and vision (100% covered for you) Flexible PTO Equipment of your choice and any AI you want to use/try Visa sponsorship if you need it Whipping the Clankers #J-18808-Ljbffr

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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