Founding Product Engineer
$150k - $275kDavid Joseph & Company
Job Description
Job Description
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Full-time Compensation: $150,000–$275,000 + 0.5%–1.0% equity
About the CompanyOur client is a pre-seed, design-obsessed startup building an AI-native outbound sales platform — replacing the SDR-and-GTM-engineer stack teams cobble together today from a handful of point tools and a few engineers gluing it together. In its first few months it has grown past $80K MRR, with 50+ venture-backed startups and a growing roster of post–Series A companies running outbound on the platform. It's a small, dense team where the bar for engineering taste, product instinct, and aesthetic quality is very high.
Founded 2025 · 1–10 people (Pre-seed) · Industry: AI Tools
The RoleAs a Founding Product Engineer, you'll own the surfaces customers — founders, GTM leaders, sales engineers — live in every day, making a system-of-action that sits on top of every GTM data source (CRMs, enrichment APIs, professional networks, intent signals, website-visitor data) feel like one beautifully designed product rather than a plumbing project.
Tech stack: Next.js, React, Python, FastAPI, Supabase.
Requirements- 0–4 years of engineering experience; new grads welcome
- A quantitative or technical background (data science, CS, industrial engineering, or operations)
- Comfort communicating with customers and bridging technical and non-technical
- Full-stack ability across the modern JS/Python stack (Next.js, React, Python, Supabase)
- A product and operations instinct
- On-site in San Francisco five days a week
- Prior founder, founding-engineer, or first-few-hire experience at an early-stage startup
- Engineering taste demonstrated through shipped products at a Linear / Attio / Raycast / Vercel-caliber quality bar
- A power user of GTM tools (Apollo, Outreach, Clay, Attio, HubSpot) who has actually run outbound, not just built features for sales teams
- A strong academic background paired with real startup ownership
- A public portfolio — shipped side projects, an active GitHub showing fast iteration, or writing on product engineering / AI agent UIs
- Founding-level ownership: work directly with the founders, ship to production weekly, and shape what the product becomes
- Real traction, early: $80K+ MRR in the first few months, 50+ customers, targeting $10M ARR
- A design-obsessed bar: "Linear-quality B2B SaaS" is the explicit standard
- Comp and perks: strong base and equity, free lunch and dinner, transport to and from the office, health insurance, and equipment
- Location — San Francisco, CA
- Work policy — On-site, 5 days/week
- Compensation — $150,000–$275,000 + 0.5%–1.0% equity
- Visa sponsorship — Not available; US citizen or existing work visa required
- Employment type — Full-time
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