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Worktrace AI

Founding Engineer

San Francisco

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Seniority
Mid level
Country
US
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
28 Sept 2026

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About us

At Worktrace AI, our our mission is to eliminate the AI divide. Frontier AI labs are developing AI that can free people to focus on meaningful, high-impact work—yet, most teams don’t know where to start and are being left behind. We’re building AI that helps teams uncover their best automation opportunities and build those automations.

The role

We are hiring a Founding Engineer to be the tip of the spear for turning Worktrace AI’s ambitious product vision into reality. In this role, you will be a key part of the founding team—ideating, prototyping, and ultimately shipping cutting-edge AI products. Besides building, you will identify key areas for engineering investment, build the technical foundation as we scale, and lead by example to build a healthy and strong engineering culture.

What you’ll do

Collaborate with Research and Design to create new ways to use AI

Rapidly prototype product ideas and productionize novel AI research

Set the talent and culture standards for Worktrace AI’s engineering team

You’ll excel in this role if you

Love rapidly building user-facing products

Have experience with machine learning and/or data pipelines

Have uncompromising standards of excellence

Find joy in delivering AI magic moments to users

Benefits and perks

Top-of-market salary and equity

Visa sponsorship

Generous health and dental insurance for you and dependents

Unlimited PTO

401K

The Team

Our founders are Angela Jiang (CMU PhD), an early product manager at OpenAI and led the launches of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, and Deepak Vasisht (MIT PhD), a CS Professor at UIUC who has deployed cutting edge AI into industries spanning agriculture to space. Our team are builders that come from Google DeepMind, Meta, MIT, McKinsey, Twitter, Uber, and HPE. Join us.

Backed by the best in AI and Enterprise

We are supported with a $9.4M seed round led by 8VC and Conviction with participation from funds like OpenAI, SV Angel, and Genius Ventures. Our angels include industry leaders, including Mira Murati (CEO of Thinking Machines Lab), Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT), Logan Kilpatrick (Google DeepMind), and Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft).

Original posting on Worktrace AI's site ↗

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