Founding Engineer (Santa Clara)

Founding Software Engineer / AI Engineer / ML Engineer / Founding Engineer

Location : San Francisco Bay Area

Compensation : Competitive salary plus healthy equity

Youll be joining a top-tier VC backed startup led by repeat founders who have taken multiple companies from zero to IPO and acquisition. The companys mission is bold, building products at the intersection of modern AI systems and large-scale web infrastructure. Theyre solving problems most teams havent even thought about yet.

This is a rare 0 to 1 opportunity where youll work shoulder to shoulder with elite engineers, product leaders, and founders who care deeply about quality and speed of execution.

What Youll Do

Design and build production-grade systems end to end, from APIs to frontend

Own architecture, deployment, monitoring, and incident response

Develop and evolve AI driven features, working hands-on with LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval layers

Ship and iterate quickly with short feedback loops and real autonomy

Partner closely with design and product to create seamless, reliable user experiences

Help shape engineering culture, tooling, and technical standards

Youll Thrive Here If You

Have worked in a startup or fast-paced environment before

Think in systems, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability

Care about clean APIs, honest documentation, and thoughtful design

Are comfortable experimenting with LLMs, retrieval systems, and modern AI tooling

Bring curiosity, initiative, and a drive to master new technologies quickly

Bonus Points

Built or integrated with vector databases such as FAISS, PGVector, or Milvus

Strong experience with TypeScript, modern frameworks, and cloud infrastructure

Familiarity with GPU inference, quantization, or retrieval optimization

Contributions to open source projects or experience in an early stage founding team

Why This Role

This is not just another job. Its a chance to help shape something genuinely next generation. The engineering bar is high, the product vision is ambitious, and the people youll build alongside know how to scale world-class technology.

If you love ownership, creative problem solving, and building things that matter, this ones for you.

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