Founding Engineer

Arzana is building the autonomous operating system for US manufacturers. It’s an ERP with the back-office of custom agents built in that automatically make quotes, enter orders, schedule jobs, purchase materials, process invoices, and arrange logistics. We’re growing 75% month-over-month and looking for engineers that thrive in fast moving, 70-80 hour week, high-ownership roles. As a founding engineer, you will work directly with the CEO and Lead Founder Engineer to build agents and configure our ERP platform for customer-specific applications. You’ll also contribute to the onboarding agent that takes in terabytes of a customer’s historical data and task mining videos and autonomously builds their custom agent / ERP. This is a high-ownership role for someone excited to operate across product, engineering, and customer workflows from day one. What You’ll Do Extend existing agents to support more customer configurations, edge cases, and backend integrations Build entirely new agent types from scratch Build custom neural net models, fine-tune LLMs and VLMs on factory data to replicate expert human operator actions and orchestrate business and production workflows Translate human-described business workflows into clean chains of extraction, reasoning, and action nodes Wire agents into external APIs and operational systems Own technical decisions across the agents’ platform, from architecture through implementation Work directly with the CEO on product direction, roadmap, and prioritization Help build out the team and manage future engineers as the company grows What We’re Looking For Experience working in or closely with manufacturing environments: We’re talking gritty, old school manufacturers in rural areas. Translating their non-technical description of a specific workflow into a reliable agent requires learning to speak their language, ask the right questions, and above all, commit massive amounts of information to memory in a short period of time. Experience taking an agent product or agent workflow from zero to production, including building, shipping, and deploying it, whether as a personal project or in a company setting Strong builder instincts and a high degree of ownership and autonomy. We’re a team of hackers with a “if you can think it you can build it” mentality Excitement for turning ambiguous business processes into reliable software systems Comfort operating across the stack, from frontend usability to backend architecture and integrations Strong product sense and the ability to make good decisions with incomplete information, and know when you don’t have enough information and what questions to ask. Ability to move quickly, handle edge cases, and improve systems through iteration Why this role is exciting This is not a narrow implementation role. You’ll be defining how our platform works at its core: how it ingests information, reasons across fragmented systems, and executes real workflows reliably. You’ll have direct influence over both the technical architecture and the product itself. You’ll report directly to the CEO and Lead Founding Engineer. There’s no management layer between you and the work, and over time you’ll have the opportunity to help build the team around this function. #J-18808-Ljbffr Arzana (YC P26)