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# Founding AI Engineer

- **Company:** David Joseph & Company
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, Software Construction, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Backend, Agentic-AI, Information Technology, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** November 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/24938e11-aafa-4d96-8bb0-43b330a99430/founding-ai-engineer

## About the Role

* Two to five years building software across the full stack
 * A track record of shipping production systems and then living with them, at a scale of roughly fifty customers or more
 * Practical command of LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and agent architectures
 * A founding-engineer disposition: side projects you actually ship, and readiness for the pace and commitment an early team demands
 * Clear communication, the ability to make a complicated problem simple, and decisiveness about what matters first

Nice to Haves

 * AI agents or tool-using LLM systems you have run in production, not just prototyped
 * Time at an early-stage startup, somewhere between seed and Series C
 * Exposure to enterprise IT, security, or identity management
 * A bachelor's degree in computer science or a comparable technical field
 * Depth in distributed systems and backend infrastructure
 * Comfort owning front-end product work as well as the layers beneath it

## Description

This is a founding engineering seat on a team of four. You would work directly with the founders across the entire product, from the distributed infrastructure underneath it to the agents themselves to the features customers touch. The team is in the office together five days a week, jams on problems in person, and leans hard on AI across its own internal work.

What you'll be doing

 * Building and improving AI agents that investigate and resolve IT support tickets across live customer environments
 * Scaling infrastructure and distributed systems to keep pace with customer growth and reliability demands
 * Shipping across a wide surface area, frontend through backend through integrations, driven by direct customer feedback
 * Working alongside the founders day to day on a roadmap that moves quickly
 * Optionally sitting with customers to understand their problems and shape where the product goes