Founding Engineer

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI startup building autonomous agents that automate complex processes for industrial enterprises. You’ll work across the full stack - from React frontends to cloud infrastructure to LLM-powered backends - with direct influence over both the product and the engineering culture being built from the ground up. What You’ll Do

• Architect and ship end-to-end features, balancing near-term impact with long-term scalability.
• Design agentic systems that use LLMs for reasoning, document extraction, and enterprise process automation.
• Implement AI best practices to ensure autonomous agents operate with precision, security, and industrial-grade reliability.
• Own the complete user journey - refining frontends, architecting backend logic, and managing cloud infrastructure as needed.
• Build mission-critical, secure, and resilient AI solutions held to the highest standards for data integrity.
• Proactively identify and resolve critical problems outside your immediate scope, from infrastructure bottlenecks to customer friction points.

• 3+ years building full-stack applications with Python backends and React frontends in production environments.
• Practical production experience building and deploying LLM-based agentic systems or AI agents.
• Strong proficiency with Python backend frameworks - FastAPI, Pydantic, and SQLAlchemy.
• Production experience with TypeScript and React for building user interfaces for complex workflows.
• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks such as PydanticAI, Google ADK, LangGraph, or equivalent tools.
• Experience designing mission-critical systems with high reliability, security, and data integrity requirements.
• Comfortable shipping rapidly using AI coding assistants (e.g. Cursor, Copilot, Gemini) to increase velocity.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure deployment and management for production applications.
• Nice to have: Experience with LLM observability/evaluation tools, ERP or enterprise supply chain integrations, document extraction and unstructured data processing, or fluency in German.