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Founding Engineer

On-site San Francisco, United States full time

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI/ML developer tooling team as its first full-time engineer outside the founding group. You will build systems that detect failures in AI agent conversations and generate verified fixes, helping customers ship more reliable software.

What You'll Do

  • Build end-to-end product capabilities, from data ingestion and failure detection to patch generation and verification.

  • Design reproduction logic, guardrails, and checks that help prevent unsafe or incorrect changes from reaching customer repositories.

  • Turn customer problems into shipped solutions, working directly with customers to understand traces, production failures, and requirements.

  • Make architectural decisions across schemas, service boundaries, and system tradeoffs.

  • Establish engineering practices for testing, observability, on-call, and releases.

  • Work across data pipelines, detection systems, and user-facing review experiences as product needs evolve.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of experience shipping production software, with a track record of contributing beyond your core specialty.

  • Strong full-stack TypeScript skills, including experience building user-facing products and core services.

  • Experience building and operating AI agents in production, with an understanding of agent failure modes and debugging.

  • Experience designing and optimizing high-volume data pipelines with attention to cost, observability, monitoring, and production debugging.

  • Ability to independently take loosely defined customer problems through architectural decisions and delivery.

  • Comfort working directly with customers and in an early-stage team with broad ownership.

Compensation & Benefits

The annual salary range is $150,000 to $200,000. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. The role requires working from the office six days per week.

Source: the employer's careers page. Last checked 2026-10-04. Posted 2026-10-03.

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