Founding Full Stack Engineer (AI-Native)

The Center For Breakthrough Medicines, LLC
Oakland, United States of America
12 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
$ 220K

Job location

Oakland, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Artificial Intelligence
Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems
Software Debugging
Python
Node.js
Next.js
TypeScript
Web Applications
React
Large Language Models
Backend
FastAPI
Event Driven Architecture
Front End Software Development

Job description

  • Design and integrate AI-native workflows using LLMs, retrieval systems, and tool-use patterns
  • Translate ambiguous customer problems into shipped product features with minimal direction
  • Prototype quickly and iterate based on live operational feedback
  • Debug across the entire stack and remove bottlenecks
  • Collaborate closely with product, domain experts, and early customers
  • Influence architecture, engineering standards, and the early product roadmap
  • Help shape hiring and engineering culture from the ground up

Requirements

Do you have experience in APIs?, * Strong backend development skills in Python and/or TypeScript

  • Ability to build and maintain modern customer-facing web applications
  • Proven ability to ship full-stack features end-to-end
  • Experience integrating LLM APIs and building AI-augmented products
  • Experience with retrieval systems, agentic workflows, tool-use patterns, or similar AI-native architectures
  • Strong debugging skills across backend and frontend systems
  • Clear communicator with a bias toward action, ownership, and simplicity
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building from first principles, * Experience with React, Next.js, Node.js, FastAPI, or similar frameworks
  • Experience with workflow engines, orchestration systems, or event-driven architectures
  • Prior startup, founding engineer, or zero-to-one experience
  • Experience in operations-heavy industries such as mining, energy, logistics, manufacturing, or industrial technology
  • Experience evaluating, monitoring, or improving production AI systems, We value speed, clarity, and technical rigor. We favor simple systems over clever ones, prototypes over over-planning, and ownership over handoffs. You'll work directly with founders and ship things that matter quickly., Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plan, Compensation Range: $160K - $220K

About the company

Skiffra is building the intelligence layer for the physical world. We translate complex, real-world environments into clear, actionable data. While most AI companies focus on digital industries, we design AI native orchestration systems for the sectors that extract, move, and build ecosystems around us. We turn messy, high stakes operations into intelligent, adaptive workflows that improve decisions in real time. Our first proving ground is mining and natural resources, but the platform is modular by design and built to scale into any industry where decisions are expensive and the consequences are real.

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