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# Founding Software Engineer

- **Company:** Jobot
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), Large Language Models, Agentic-AI, Asynchronous Programming
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b3a3d4d5-99aa-4dea-87d0-b84410d9dec5

## About the Role

Strong backend engineering fundamentals
You've designed and shipped production systems and understand how the pieces fit together - from data models and APIs through runtime, deployment, monitoring, and the end-user experience. Python is the primary language today, but we care more about strong engineering judgment than loyalty to a particular language.

A true product builder
You're comfortable figuring things out when there isn't a roadmap or a detailed specification. You naturally step back to understand the larger problem, prioritize what matters, and keep moving toward the goal.

Excellent technical and product judgment
You think beyond implementation. Before optimizing how something gets built, you want to understand whether it's the right thing to build in the first place.

Advanced experience with AI-assisted and agentic development
You're actively using modern agentic coding tools to produce high-quality software - not simply experimenting with them. You understand where agents add leverage, where human judgment is essential, and how to effectively direct and evaluate AI-generated work.

Hands-on LLM and agentic systems experience
You have meaningful experience building, using, and deploying LLM-powered or agentic systems, ideally in environments where reliability and operational quality matter.

High ownership and strong communication
You're comfortable working directly with a founder, taking an incomplete direction and turning it into a recommendation, explaining technical tradeoffs clearly, and demonstrating progress through working software rather than activity reports.

Nice to Have
Experience working in a regulated or highly technical industry such as aerospace, defense, medical technology, or fintech.
Previous experience at an early-stage startup.
Experience building products where reliability, security, or operational performance are critical.

## Description

Fully remote within the United States.
U.S. citizenship required.
Occasional Los Angeles-area meetings are encouraged but not required.
Full-time role with flexibility around customer and SBIR milestones.
Primarily asynchronous communication through Slack or a similar platform.
Approximately 3-5 short meetings per week.
One concise written weekly update.
High autonomy, direct access to the founder, and significant influence over the technical direction.

Why This Role Is Different
This is an opportunity to join at the earliest technical stage and have an outsized impact on both the product and the company.

You'll have the autonomy to make meaningful technical decisions, work directly with a founder who understands the engineering problems firsthand, build with cutting-edge AI tools, and help establish the technical foundation for a product being developed for real aerospace and defense applications.