Founding CTO/Head of Engineering at AI Startup (backed by a16z Speedrun, pre-seed)SUN • Palo Alto, CA, United States
Founding CTO / Head of Engineering at AI Startup (backed by a16z Speedrun, pre-seed)
SUN • Palo Alto, CA, United States
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job_description.job_card.job_description5+ years architecting, shipping & scaling AI products Deep experience with LLMs, evals, context / retrieval systems, TTS, agents, and model integration Comfortable across the stack : Flutter, Node, Supabase, AWS, DevOps, pipelines, instrumentation Experience recruiting and building small, elite engineering teams Ideally Bay Area–based (we’ll be in SF during a16z Speedrun program ) Bias toward action, craftsmanship, and building fast without drama Positive attitude, high personal integrity, and the founder-level ambition to build something huge Founding equity, ownership, and a much lower salary than at big tech lol A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help build the next unicorn company from day zero Direct access to a16z’s network and Speedrun support at the earliest stage
SUN is an AI audio-learning app. A GenAI alternative to Audible and podcasts. We turn any topic, book, or idea into a high-quality audio course, with real-time Q&A while listening.
We just got into the a16z Speedrun SR006 program (0.5% acceptance rate), kicking off this January in San Francisco.
We’re now looking for a Founding CTO, a Staff / Principal-level AI Engineer. Someone who is positive, slightly delusional (in the best founder way), a high-performer with high integrity, and genuinely smart.
If that’s you, you’ll feel at home here.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and ship code daily across AI, web, mobile, and infra
- Lead and mentor team engineers
- Design and optimize our AI system : quality, speed, cost, evals, context, TTS, conversational agents
- Own the entire technical roadmap from 0→1 and beyond
- Recruit, hire, and build the early engineering team
- Establish engineering culture, velocity, and standards from day one
- Help define the DNA of the company
Qualifications
What we offer
If you’re a Silicon Valley experienced AI Engineer who codes daily, ships, and dreams big, let’s talk.
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