Founding Engineer - Full Stack

Join the founding engineering team of a Y Combinator-backed AI startup building brand intelligence tooling at the intersection of AI research, product, and engineering. This company helps brands understand how large language models perceive and talk about them - and how to shape that narrative. As a Founding Engineer, you’ll have outsized ownership and impact, working directly with customers and leadership to ship end-to-end features in a fast-moving environment., * Maintain a close feedback loop with customers and the executive team, shipping quickly and iteratively.

• Help shape the culture, patterns, and practices of a brand-new engineering team.
• Continuously reinvent best practices for building alongside AI agents as a core part of the development workflow.

• 1+ years of experience on an engineering team (2+ preferred); includes at least one stint of 18+ months in a strong engineering environment (scale-up or startup).
• Proficiency with React, Python, Terraform, and AWS.
• Comfortable working full-stack - from customer-facing UI all the way down to infrastructure.
• Experience building agentic systems.
• Strong product sense and design intuition; able to translate customer needs into shipped features.
• Startup experience or self-driven personal projects that demonstrate initiative and high agency.
• US citizen or eligible to work in the US (visa sponsorship available).

Nice to Have:

• Direct experience working with customers.
• Scientific or AI research background, especially in AI interpretability.
• Eagerness to adopt and adapt to AI-powered coding tools and emerging engineering workflows.

• Salary: $150,000 - $250,000 USD annually
• Early-stage equity
• Visa sponsorship available