Founding Engineer

This is a true full-stack founding role with no fixed lane. You’ll build across the entire product alongside the technical founder - the conversational agent, the embeddable customer-facing experience, the internal platform, the evaluation and self-improvement pipeline, and the infrastructure underneath it. You’ll usually get a problem statement rather than a spec and own the solution end to end, shipping quickly and iterating in production.

What you’ll be doing

• Diagnose and fix live customer agents, then ship fixes to the orchestration layer the same day
• Prototype generative UI that adapts in real time to what each prospect cares about
• Own an eval pipeline: catch quality regressions, trace root causes, roll back, and add tests
• Design and build net-new infrastructure (e.g. versioning so customers can preview agent changes before they go live)
• Move across the stack as the problem requires, including the unglamorous work - CSS, migrations, and customer debugging

• 1-5 years building full-stack products at a venture-backed B2B SaaS startup (roughly pre-seed through Series C) with real, paying customers
• Genuinely full-stack, with strong front-end, UX, and customer-facing product experience - not backend-only
• Hands-on experience shipping production AI-agent features to real users: LLM agents, RAG pipelines, or agent orchestration (frameworks or custom-built)
• Comfortable working with React and Python
• A CS undergraduate degree
• Thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and takes high ownership
• Strong product instincts, with genuine excitement about turning user feedback into shipped code

Nice to Haves

• Prior experience at a venture-backed sales-tech startup, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Business-to-Business (B2B), CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), Customer Relations, Customer/Client Research, Debugging Skills, Identify Issues, Product Demonstration, Prototyping, Python Programming/Scripting Language, SLICE (Simulation Language with Integrated Circuit Emphasis), Sales Demonstration, Software Development, Software as a Service (SaaS), Startup, Technical Sales, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)

Our client is a seed-stage startup building conversational AI agents that run live product demos and autonomous sales for B2B companies - prospects start a conversation and get an instant, interactive demo instead of waiting on a scheduled call. They’ve tripled their customer base in the past month and are backed by strong investors. You’d be one of the first engineers on the team, working directly with the technical founder.

Founded 2025 · Small founding team · Industry: B2B, AI, Software Development