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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Pear VC
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Design of User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, PostgreSQL, Next.js, TypeScript, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Claude Code, Electron (Programming Language), AI Coding Agents, Production Code, Web Api
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/founding-engineer-palo-alto-ca--9b70d6ea-bfd0-41c3-a198-ce2b4e7ef999

## About the Role

Coaching, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Return on Investment (ROI), Startup, Computer Programming, Sales Closing Skills, Prototyping, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Reporting Dashboards, Employee Orientation, * Shipping full-stack production-ready products in fast-moving environments

 * Strong with TypeScript, React, Next.js, backend APIs, and Postgres
 * Comfortable building across web and desktop (Electron, Tauri, or similar)
 * Has built LLM-powered features in production, not just prototyped with them
 * Production habits: CI/CD, testing, observability, pragmatic system design
 * Native with AI coding agents (Claude Code/Codex)
 * Obsessive about customer needs, not just abstract "users"
 * Comfortable debugging, writing tests, talking to customers, and jumping on a pilot call

Bonus: Experience with building browser-based automation tools or developer/enterprise tools.

## Description

This is not a typical engineering role. You'll be our founding engineer, with an outsized role in how the product, company, and engineering culture evolve.

You'll write code, but you'll also:

 * Talk to customers and join pilot calls
 * Turn feedback into product changes the same week
 * Influence the roadmap directly
 * Help close deals by building what matters fast
 * Own features end-to-end, from prototype to production

In your first 90 days, you'll:

 * Ship production code to real pilot customers in your first weeks
 * Build the core product surfaces: employee-facing guidance UX and manager dashboard
 * Work across the stack (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Postgres, Electron/Tauri)
 * Wire up LLM features that actually work in production, not just in a demo
 * Set up the telemetry and eval systems that make our insights credible