Founding Engineer - Full Stack
$150k - $250kClera
About the Role A Y Combinator-backed AI startup is looking for a Founding Engineer - Full Stack to join a small founding team at the ground floor. The company operates at the intersection of AI research, product, and engineering - building tools that help brands understand and shape how large language models perceive and represent them. This is a rare opportunity to co-define engineering culture and practices from day one in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.
What You'll Do
What You'll Do
- Own problems end-to-end - from customer insight and product requirements all the way through research and infrastructure.
- Maintain a tight feedback loop with customers and the founding team; ship features quickly and iteratively.
- Help define and shape the engineering team's culture, patterns, and best practices.
- Continuously explore and reinvent how engineering teams work effectively alongside AI agents.
- 1+ years of experience on engineering teams (2+ preferred), including at least one stint longer than 18 months in a strong startup or scale-up environment.
- Full-stack proficiency - comfortable owning customer-facing UI through to infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with React, Python, Terraform, and AWS .
- Experience building agentic systems or working with LLMs in production.
- Strong product sense and design instincts; able to translate customer needs into shippable features.
- Startup experience or self-driven personal projects that demonstrate initiative and high agency.
- Must be a US citizen or have US work authorization (no visa sponsorship for candidates outside the US).
- Scientific or academic research background.
- Direct customer-facing experience in a technical role.
- Enthusiasm for adopting AI-powered coding and productivity tools.
- Salary: $150,000 - $250,000 USD annually (depending on experience)
- Early-stage equity
- Visa sponsorship available for eligible candidates
Vacancy posted 9 hours ago
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