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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Recruiting from Scratch
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $280,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Home Automation, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Backend, Agentic-AI, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/founding-engineer-san-francisco-ca--4521e51d-b44d-4b24-a4c8-44acb8c2478a

## About the Role

Seed Funding, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Startup, Automation Systems, Insurance, Home Automation, Product Engineering, Technical Strategy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Systems Scalability, 2-10 years of full-stack or backend engineering experienceStrong startup experience or evidence of exceptional ownershipExperience shipping production systems end-to-endStrong product-minded engineering instinctsComfortable working in ambiguous, customer-driven environmentsExcited by AI-native engineering workflows, Built production LLM or AI agent systemsExperience in regulated or data-intensive industries (insurance, fintech, healthcare, legaltech)Strong TypeScript or backend systems experienceExperience designing eval systems for AI outputsExperience with agentic engineering workflowsStrong customer-facing technical communicationExceptional evidence of intensity / excellence (startup founding, competitive athletics, OSS, etc.)