
Founding Engineer, AI Platform
Required skills
- AI Platform
- enterprise AI
- intelligent workspace
- organizational memory
- proactive agents
- customer-specific workflows
- full-stack software engineering
- AI-native
- fast-moving product environments
- founder
Nice to have
- triggers
- approvals
- memory
- observability
- workflow execution
- product roadmap
Role summary
An early-stage enterprise AI company is seeking a Founding Engineer for its AI Platform. This role involves building the core platform from scratch, covering product, infrastructure, agents, and customer workflows. The engineer will lead key platform primitives, own work from discovery to iteration, and build full-stack product surfaces and backend systems. The position requires 3-7 years of full-stack experience in AI-native or fast-paced startup environments, with a strong emphasis on backend skills and experience shipping AI-powered features. Familiarity with LLM APIs, RAG, agent orchestration, or similar technologies is essential. The role offers high autonomy and direct customer interaction, with the opportunity to shape the company's product, architecture, and culture. The position is based in San Francisco with a hybrid work model.
Our client is an early-stage enterprise AI company building an intelligent workspace that converts meetings, email, documents, chat, and operational systems into durable organizational memory, proactive agents, and customer-specific workflows. The company has raised a $10 million seed round, already serves large enterprise customers, and is led by seasoned technology and AI operators.
As a Founding Engineer, AI Platform, you will build the core platform from the ground up and operate across product, infrastructure, agents, evaluations, and customer workflows. You will lead reusable platform primitives including triggers, tools, approvals, memory, observability, and workflow execution; own work from customer discovery through launch and iteration; build full-stack product surfaces and backend systems; work directly with customers; and help shape the product roadmap, architecture, engineering practices, and culture.
3 to 7 years of full-stack software engineering experience in AI-native or fast-moving product environments.
Clear 0-to-1 experience as a founder, founding engineer, or early engineer at a venture-backed startup.
Strong backend engineering skills and the ability to own work across the full stack.
Experience shipping AI-powered features into production and familiarity with LLM APIs, RAG, agent orchestration, tool calling, evaluations, or adjacent agent infrastructure.
High autonomy, strong product judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to speak directly with customers.
Bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent technical degree.
Ability to work from San Francisco approximately three days per week.
Existing authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Base salary of $180,000 to $250,000 plus competitive founding-stage equity, with approximately 0.25 percent discussed as a reference point. Join a $10 million seed-stage company with real enterprise customers, direct access to the founding team, and meaningful influence over product, architecture, and engineering culture.
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