Founding Engineer

About the Role

This is a Founding Engineer role at a small but fast-moving enterprise AI startup building configurable automation products for distributors and manufacturers. The company's platform automates critical back-office and sales operations workflows — including quoting, order entry, and process execution — and integrates directly with customers' existing ERP and CRM systems.

The product is already live with customers doing significant revenue, and demand is growing fast. As the first engineering hire , you'll work closely with the founders, own problems end to end, and have outsized influence on what gets built and how. Visa sponsorship is available.

What You'll Do

• Own problems completely — from talking with customers and mapping their workflows, to designing and shipping the solution.

• Build across the full stack: customer-facing features, AI agents, third-party integrations, and cloud infrastructure.

• Improve the evals, tests, and tooling that make each new customer implementation faster and more reliable.

• Week one: Ship your first feature to a live customer.

• Month one: Get on a customer call, identify a problem, design it, and deploy the fix.

• Quarter one: Own a meaningful surface area of the product end to end.

What We're Looking For

Must-haves:

• Full-stack development experience shipping production web applications with TypeScript, Next.js, and Python .

• Demonstrated experience building production-ready AI agents : context engineering, tool design, and evaluation frameworks.

• Hands-on experience deploying and managing applications on Google Cloud Platform .

• Experience integrating with legacy systems, third-party APIs, and enterprise software platforms.

• Track record of owning features end to end — from customer requirements through design, implementation, testing, and deployment.

• Experience conducting customer discovery and translating real business problems into technical solutions.

• Experience building automated testing, evaluation frameworks, and observability tooling for production systems.

• Comfort thriving in early-stage startup environments with small teams and rapid iteration.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with LLM frameworks, prompt engineering, or AI agent orchestration tools.

• Familiarity with ERP systems, manufacturing workflows, or B2B operations automation.

• Experience building integrations with enterprise software or data systems.

You're a great fit if you:

• Prefer owning whole problems over working from a narrowly defined backlog.

• Enjoy talking directly with customers and getting to the root of their needs.

• Ship fast without sacrificing quality.

• Stay on the bleeding edge of AI tooling while exercising your own engineering judgment.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $140,000 – $220,000 USD annually

• Early equity in a high-growth, revenue-generating startup

• Visa sponsorship available

Location

This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA . The team works closely together in person — remote or hybrid arrangements are not available for this position.