Founding AI Engineer
$145k - $240kDavid Joseph and Company
About the job Founding AI Engineer Our client is a well-capitalized, venture-backed startup (founded 2025) building an AI platform for the commercial insurance industry. Their product automates the document-heavy workflows that slow insurance professionals down, in a large market that is only beginning to adopt AI. You would be one of the first engineers on a small team, shaping the product from the ground up. Founded 2025 • ~8 people • Industry: AI, Insurance The Role As a founding engineer, you'll build the AI agents and workflows that power the product and own customer-facing features end-to-end, working closely with the founding team in a fast-moving environment. What you'll be doing Build AI agents and workflows for real insurance use cases Ship customer-facing product features end-to-end Iterate quickly alongside the founding team in an ambiguous, high-growth setting Use modern AI coding tools as a core part of your daily workflow Tech stack: Python, React, AI coding tools Requirements 2 to 5 years of experience as a full stack engineer with exposure to AI-powered applications A recent track record (within the last 1 to 2 years) of shipping customer-facing products end-to-end Hands-on, daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar Experience at an early-stage startup (Seed to Series B) during a high-growth phase Strong Python skills A computer science degree or equivalent technical foundation A language-agnostic mindset, comfortable picking up new tools and switching between languages as needed Nice to Haves Prior experience in an AI Product Engineer or Applied AI Engineer role Exposure to React Why Join A true founding-engineer seat with day-one ownership of product Ship to real customers immediately in a large, fast-growing market Well-capitalized and venture-backed, with an experienced founder Details Location: San Francisco, CA Work policy: On-site Compensation: $145,000-$240,000 + equity Visa sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H-1B transfers) Employment type: Full-time David Joseph and Company
- ...Founding AI Engineer We founded Bild AI to tackle the mess that is blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It's a tough technical problem that requires the newest CV and AI approaches, and we’re impact-driven to make it more efficient...SuggestedFull timeWork at officeRelocation
Bild Ai
San Francisco, CAmore than 2 months ago - ...Who we are: Cooper is an AI coworker for the insurance industry. Getting a business insured involves mountains of paperwork... ...global insurance industry. About the role: We're hiring the Founding Engineering team for a new hyper-growth AI business unit. You’ll build AI...SuggestedFull time
Cooper Ai
San Francisco, CAa month ago $175k - $250k
...Founding AI Engineer Title of Role: Founding AI Engineer Location: San Francisco, hybrid Company Stage of Funding: Venture-Backed - Software Development, Cybersecurity, AI Office Type: Hybrid Salary: $175K-$250K Company Description We're representing...SuggestedWork at officeRecruiting from Scratch
San Francisco, CA1 day ago$225k - $255k
...the Role We're a small, product-focused team building an AI-powered B2B pricing platform that helps companies... ...to real-time deal guidance and discount governance. As our Founding AI Engineer , you'll own the evaluation systems, feedback loops, and LLM...SuggestedRelocationClera
San Francisco, CA4 days ago- ...Founding AI Engineer At Falconer, we're transforming how engineers create, access, and share knowledge with each other and their AI agents. We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to help us build an AI-powered knowledge platform that companies love. As a founding...SuggestedWork experience placementWork at officeFlexible hours
Falconer AI
San Francisco, CA3 days ago $160k - $200k
...San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-Time We're seeking a highly autonomous Founding AI Engineer to join a seed-stage agentic AI company applying multimodal AI to construction and architecture. Its agents analyze blueprints to determine whether buildings are safe,...Full timeVisa sponsorshipJeffreyM Consulting
San Francisco, CA5 days ago- ...Founding Ai Engineer The future will have more chips, in more varieties, for more applications than ever before. The current way of designing, testing, and manufacturing them can't keep up. Outdated chip development processes are the present rate limiter on humanity...
Bronco AI
San Francisco, CA3 days ago $175k - $220k
...About the job Founding AI Engineer San Francisco, CA • On-site (5 days per week) • Full-time Compensation: $175,000 to $220,000 + competitive early-stage equity About the Company Our client is a seed-stage company building AI agents that work as...Full timeH1bWork at officeVisa sponsorshipDavid Joseph and Company
San Francisco, CA4 days ago- ...Founding AI Engineer Weave (YC W25) is building the definitive platform for understanding and improving how engineering teams work. We believe the way engineering output is measured today is fundamentally broken and that modern AI can give teams a far more accurate...
Weave, Inc.
San Francisco, CA1 day ago - ...For phase 1, we're training foundational AI models that create building code-compliant... ...models, geometric and physics engines from scratch to transform how the world designs... ...from raw 2D or spatial data using AI. As a Founding AI Engineer for Scan-to-BIM on our core AI...Full timeVisa sponsorship
Augrade Private Limited
San Francisco, CAmore than 2 months ago $120k - $200k
...120,000 - $200,000 + 0.5‑2% Equity + Flexible PTO Are you an AI engineer who wants to build and own the core agentic systems powering an... ...intelligence, whilst benefiting from full autonomy and founding‑level equity? This is a rare opportunity to join a YC‑backed,...Full timeImmediate startFlexible hours- At Middleware — one of the fastest-growing AI observability platforms — we're looking for a talented and experienced AI/ML founding engineer to join our team. You'll play a key role in building AI on our observability platform to detect and fix issues automatically. In...
$120k - $200k
Our client, an AI-driven legal tech company, is hiring a Founding AI Engineer to join the team in San Francisco, CA. The successful candidate will design and deploy production-grade LLM systems for a next-generation legal technology platform, while also transforming complex...Full timeAlldus International Consulting Ltd
San Francisco, CA28 days ago$120k - $180k
...Job Description Job Description About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a seed-stage AI startup building the intelligence layer for the construction industry. The company's platform transforms messy blueprints, permits, and construction documents into...Full timeWork at officeRelocationClera
San Francisco, CA28 days ago$120k - $180k
...Job Description Job Description About the Role This is a founding AI engineering role at a seed-stage construction technology company building an intelligence layer that transforms messy blueprints, permits, and construction documents into actionable insights — making...Full timeWork at officeRemote workRelocationClera
San Francisco, CA28 days ago$160k - $200k
...Description About the Company A seed-stage company (founded 2025) on the frontier of agentic AI for the built world, building the technical leader in... ...affordable. It's one of very few places in tech where an engineer can work directly on housing, and that mission —...Full timeVisa sponsorshipWeekend workThomas Talent Network
San Francisco, CA28 days ago- ...We’re hiring an AI Engineer to build the intelligence layer for the leading AI companion for language learning. You’ll own the core AI systems powering personalized conversations for millions of users. Language learning shouldn’t feel like an app — it should feel like...Full time
Pingo پینگو
San Francisco, CAa month ago - Do you want to work at the intersection of AI, product, engineering, and real -world operations? \ \ Join a fast -growing technology startup building intelligent systems that optimize workflows, improve efficiency and implement AI for operations in industrial environments...Full timeImmediate start
Eth Juniors
San Francisco, CAmore than 2 months ago - ...Unlock New Career Opportunities with SA Technologies Inc. We’re Hiring: Founding AI Engineer At SA Technologies Inc., we believe in turning career aspirations into reality. As a CMMI Level 5 and Great Place to Work® Certified global IT consulting and services...Full time
Dba Technologies, Llc
South San Francisco, CA20 days ago $150k - $225k
...building the smart operating system for modern families. Most AI tools are designed for work life, but managing home life is... ...strengthen their communities. The Role We’re looking for an Founding AI Engineer to design, build, and scale the intelligence layer that powers...Full timeWork from homeFlexible hours$200k - $250k
...Description About the company Our client is a lean, profitable AI infrastructure company building an open-source gateway for... ...its second major product. The role We are hiring a Founding AI Product Engineer to work directly with the founders on that next product....Full timeRelocationVisa sponsorshipRaydar
San Francisco, CA15 days ago$200k - $250k
...client builds the infrastructure powering how the world's best engineering teams use AI. Their open-source AI Gateway is already trusted by Adobe,... ...'s largest enterprises. The Opportunity This is a founding-level seat. You'll work directly with the founders to build...H1bImmediate startRelocationVisa sponsorshipDay shiftLavendo
San Francisco, CA16 days ago$155k - $180k
...to accelerate our growth. We were co-founded by Brian Overstreet and Travis May (founder... ...of risk-based contracting. Arbital AI allows users to interact with complex VBC... ...actionable. We are looking for an AI Engineer to help build our next-generation conversational...Full timeContract workWork at officeRemote workFlexible hours2 days per weekArbital Health
San Francisco, CAa month ago$150k - $350k
...About Collate Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences.... ...General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method... ...founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia...Full timeCollate
San Francisco, CAmore than 2 months ago- ...Be one of the founding engineers at Nen, shaping the AI layer that powers automation across enterprise desktop environments at scale. The role Build and extend a multi-model agent loop across leading AI providers Benchmark models across cost, latency, and reliability...Full time
Nen
San Francisco, CAmore than 2 months ago - AI Engineer Location: SF/ NYC/ Hybrid Type: Full-Time | Founding Team Opportunity About Navigate AI Navigate is building frontier AI technology for the field workforce—starting with construction. We've partnered with some of the biggest infrastructure companies...Full timeLive inRemote work
Navigate Ai
San Francisco, CAa month ago - ...making every trial smarter. We harness data, AI, and digital twins to enable faster, more... ...in San Francisco, Unlearn was founded in 2017 by a team of world-class machine... ...with you, we invite you to apply. AI Engineer. Our Science organization leads Unlearn’...Full timeFlexible hours
Unlearn
San Francisco, CA20 days ago - ...We're a team of ex-Google engineers who built some of the largest defensive platforms on the... ...challenge: stopping the new wave of adversarial AI attacks already hitting organizations... ...+ years of combined AI experience on the founding team, we know today's landscape changes...Full timeFlexible hours
Aegis Ai
San Francisco, CAmore than 2 months ago - ...Everyone's building AI agents, but almost nobody gets them to production. Building... ...authorization, governance, and trust become the real engineering challenge. Arcade is the MCP runtime... ...Founder-Market Fit : Our CEO previously founded Stormpath (acquired by Okta), where he...Full timeShift work
Arcade
San Francisco, CAa month ago - ...Hiring an Applied AI Engineer to turn frontier AI research into real products. This role is for someone who understands models deeply... ...loop between product feedback and model improvement Founder, founding engineer, or early employee at a high-growth AI startup You...Full time
Accruetalent
San Francisco, CAa month ago
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