Founding Senior AI Product Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Own major technical initiatives from ambiguous customer/product problem to architecture, implementation, iteration, and production quality.
• Build AI-native product systems involving LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, enterprise context, and workflow automation.
• Lead by building: set technical direction, make tradeoffs explicit, review work, unblock others, and raise the quality of a small engineering pod.
• Turn product and customer signal into clear technical plans without waiting for perfect requirements.

What We’re Looking for

• Staff-level engineering judgment, whether or not your current title says Staff.
• Strong hands-on coding ability and architectural taste across production systems, AI applications, infrastructure, agents, or product engineering.
• High slope: you have progressed quickly, taken on harder problems, and become someone others trust with ambiguous technical work.
• AI-native instincts: you actively use and build with AI systems and understand where they work, fail, and create new product possibilities.
• Product judgment: you connect technical choices to user value, customer deployment, product credibility, and business priorities.
• Low ego, high standards, and comfort operating before the roadmap is obvious.

In Your First 30 Days, You Will

• Own and ship meaningful production work.
• Create clarity around a major technical lane or pod.
• Reduce a roadmap or execution bottleneck without adding management overhead.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and meaningful early equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Daily meal support while working with the team.
• Unlimited access to frontier AI coding tools.
• Direct exposure to founders, investors, design partners, and early customers.

Location

This is an in-person role based in San Francisco. At this stage, we believe the best work happens through high-bandwidth collaboration, fast feedback loops, and shared context with the team.

Compensation

The expected base salary range for this role is $250,000-$350,000, plus equity and benefits. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skill level, and scope.