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Founding Engineer – Baton AI

San Francisco

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Seniority
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Country
US
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First seen by hirly
1 Sept 2026

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Founding Engineer – Baton AI

Location: San Francisco, CA (In-Person)

Experience Level: 3+ years (Full-Stack Engineering)

About Baton AI

Baton AI ( getbaton.ai ) is building the enterprise automation platform for cross-application workflows. We’re starting by helping solutions engineering and implementation teams at software companies automate customer onboarding and product setup - enabling them to deliver value faster and at scale. This is just our first wedge toward a broader vision of enterprise-wide, AI-powered automation.

We’re backed by tier-1 VCs and growing fast. Looking for ambitious builders who move fast, take ownership, and want to help define the future of AI automation.

What You’ll Do

Own core systems – Design and build key parts of our full-stack web application, API infrastructure, and AI-driven automation platform.

Work on cutting-edge tech – Work on complex technical challenges involving AI agents, prompt engineering, eval, monitoring, API, and browser automation.

Shape the product – Collaborate with early customers and the founding team to define our technical roadmap and deliver features that create real impact.

Move fast, learn fast – Prototype, experiment, and ship quickly in a high-trust, low-bureaucracy environment.

What We’re Looking For

3+ years of full-stack engineering experience and love working with React and Typescript.

Proficiency in modern web application development – React/NextJS and Node.js. Understanding of Python and Elixir/functional programming is a plus.

Experience building rich-text editors (think Notion) or excited to take on that challenge.

Experience (or strong interest) in building AI/LLM-powered apps and workflow automation tools.

A product-minded engineer who cares about clean code and great UX.

Problem-solver who thrives on breaking down ambiguity and delivering fast.

Excited to work in person with us in San Francisco .

Why Join Us?

Founding team impact – Help define our culture, product, and technology from the ground up.

Customer-first ownership – See your work used and loved by real users from day one.

Competitive pay & early equity – Be rewarded for the value you create as we grow.

Work on real AI automation – Build a platform that solves meaningful problems with cutting-edge AI and automation.

In-person (hybrid) collaboration – We believe the best teams build faster together. We work in person in San Francisco.

Ready to build the future with us? Let’s talk.

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