Founding Engineer

About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI infrastructure startup, where you will help build the platform powering the next generation of AI-native service businesses. You will work directly with the founder on a small, high-trust team with no legacy code and no pre-defined roadmap. What you build and how you build it is yours to define.

What You'll Do

Design and ship core platform features across agentic workforce infrastructure, a company knowledge layer, a human trust layer, and a unified operator cockpit.

Talk to users directly, define the right outcomes, and own the full cycle from problem to production.

Ship to production fast, from your first week onward, and iterate based on direct feedback.

Set technical direction on a greenfield codebase with no inherited constraints.

Leverage AI tooling to move at a pace that raises the bar for what a small team can produce.

What We're Looking For

Proven track record of shipping real products to real users, including navigating what broke and how you fixed it.

Broad product-engineering range relevant to agentic infrastructure and agent-building, rather than a single narrow deep-tech specialty.

Comfortable talking to users, defining outcomes, and shipping the result without waiting for assigned tickets.

AI-native working style: you use AI tools to write and ship code at a pace that would have seemed unreasonable a couple of years ago.

High intensity and a bias toward forcing things into existence; prior founding experience or very early startup experience is a strong plus.

Committed to relocating to San Francisco by January 2027. This is a firm requirement, not a preference.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary in Europe while based there, switching to a San Francisco-level salary on the day you relocate. Meaningful early equity. Visa sponsorship fully provided and fully paid for, along with relocation costs covered by the company.

Location

On-site. Currently based in Europe, with a firm relocation to San Francisco, United States by January 2027. The company supports the move end-to-end.