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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** OXUS, L.L.C
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Cursor, Distributed Systems, Information Extraction, Python (Programming Language), Scripting, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Kubernetes, Claude, Intelligent Document Processing
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/founding-engineer-san-francisco-ca--8aeebfaf-7d5c-4fd3-a47c-afa4e0f6c1b3

## About the Role

Social Media, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internal Audit, Documentation, Financial Audit, Identify Issues, Startup, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Engineering, Communication Skills, * A track record of building and shipping real software, whether through work, internships, startups, or ambitious projects

 * Strong Python and backend engineering skills
 * Significant experience building with Claude, Codex, Cursor, agent SDKs, and other AI tools
 * Moves quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality, with strong judgment about when to investigate further or ask
 * Clear, proactive communicator
 * Comfortable figuring things out without an established playbook
 * Excited to work intensely alongside the founding team: we're an in-person team in San Francisco and typically work 9/9/6

We care much more about what you've built, how you think, and how quickly and efficiently you can execute than checking specific credential boxes.

Strong Bonuses

 * Experience with document AI, RAG, OCR, multimodal models, or large-scale document processing
 * Experience building full-stack products
 * Experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and/or distributed systems
 * Built your own products, startups, or technically ambitious side projects
 * Been an early hire at a startup or worked on an early-stage team

## Description

* Work on retrieval, structured extraction, citations/provenance, OCR, and long-context reasoning across complex documents and messy enterprise data
 * Own and ship features end-to-end, from idea to customers
 * Diagnose issues quickly and ship fixes
 * Proactively identify and suggest product and technical improvements, You'll join early enough to have a meaningful impact on the product, architecture, and engineering culture. You'll work on real AI systems used in high-stakes workflows, where outputs need to be accurate, traceable, and reviewer-ready.
We're a close-knit team that works hard, moves quickly, and invests in making the experience fun. Perks include free lunch and dinner, unlimited coffee/matcha/boba, team outings and offsites, and the AI tools you need to do your best work :