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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** David Joseph & Company
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Backend, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** May 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=fec0af19912f6ef5

## About the Role

Do you have experience in SaaS?, * 2-5+ years of experience shipping full-stack products in fast-paced environments

 * Proven experience building AI-native SaaS products
 * Scrappy, resourceful, and execution-driven mindset
 * Strong ownership mentality with demonstrated care for mission, product quality, and measurable outcomes
 * Experience shipping full products end-to-end (not just isolated features)

## Description

This is a zero-to-one Founding Engineer role inside an early-stage AI company building an AI-native operating system for high-level decision makers across government and enterprise environments.

This is not a feature-level engineering position. You will own full product architecture and execution-from system design to deployment-helping shape the technical and product foundation of the company.

This role is ideal for a scrappy, product-minded engineer who thrives in early-stage environments and wants meaningful ownership over mission-critical systems.

Core Responsibilities

 * Ship core AI-driven workflows used daily by executive and leadership teams
 * Design ingestion and structuring systems that transform unstructured information into actionable intelligence
 * Work directly with leadership teams to understand real-world workflows and embed the platform into daily operations
 * Shape architecture across backend, frontend, AI systems, infrastructure, and security
 * Build and iterate on personalization, reasoning systems, recommendation layers, and contextual intelligence
 * Own infrastructure scalability and security considerations from day one


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