Founding Engineer

GERRA CO.
Los Angeles, CA, United States
5 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
$225,000 - $300,000
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Computing Platforms Systems Engineering Microsoft Software Systems Integration Backend

Job description

As our Founding Engineer, you’ll architect, build, and ship the software + systems that power real-world robot deployments across retail, hospitality, and live events. You’ll work directly with the founders, sales, and deployment teams to turn pilots into chain-wide rollouts. Every line of code you ship directly translates into millions in ARR and into businesses transforming their customer experience. This is a ground-floor role with direct ownership over the product and technology stack. You won’t just build - you’ll set the culture, playbooks, and standards for the engineering team we hire around you.

What You’ll Do

  • Build and scale the software platform that powers 100+ robot deployments monthly
  • Design APIs, dashboards, and integrations that make robots usable for Fortune 500 clients
  • Translate customer outcomes into product features with immediate ROI
  • Partner with deployment leads to ensure Day 1 success at retail stores, hotels, and conventions
  • Create the engineering culture, tools, and best practices for the first 10+ hires
  • Balance speed with scale - shipping fast while architecting for chain-wide rollouts

Requirements

Sales, Customer Acquisition, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Systems Engineering, Cost Modeling, Microsoft Product Family, Business Growth, Customer Experience, Retail, Reporting Dashboards, * You’ve been an early engineer (seed/Series A) at a startup and built v1 vX products

  • Full-stack or back-end strength; comfortable moving between systems, APIs, and infra
  • You know the difference between shipping code and shipping transformation
  • You’ve owned critical systems where uptime and reliability meant real-world impact
  • You thrive on ambiguity and can build in weeks what others scope in quarters
  • You want to be measured by impact: robots deployed, revenue generated, customers transformed

Benefits & conditions

We’re deploying AI-powered robots that are transforming how businesses acquire and serve customers. Our robots drive 5x sales increases and 10x reductions in customer acquisition costs. The model works - now we need a founding engineer to build the systems that let us scale from dozens to hundreds of deployments monthly. This isn’t about building features. It’s about creating the technical backbone for an entirely new way businesses grow. Think of joining Microsoft in 1985 to help businesses adopt PCs - except this time it’s humanoids redefining how companies acquire labor., * Base salary: $225K-$300K

  • Equity: Equity in a profitable, fast-growing company

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