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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** David Joseph & Company
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Python (Programming Language), TypeScript, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Backend, Production Code
- **Published:** June 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f0a375986d69eefc

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Python?, * 2+ years as a full-stack or backend-leaning engineer

 * Has shipped code to production in a professional capacity and owned real stakeholder outcomes
 * Experience at an early-stage startup or a prestigious larger company
 * Forward-deployed engineering experience, or experience at a company with a strong forward-deployed engineering motion
 * Domain experience in supply chain or procurement

Education

 * CS or equivalent technical degree, ideally from a strong program (e.g., Berkeley, Purdue)

Hard skills

 * Proficient in Python (bonus for TypeScript and React)
 * Regular user of AI coding assistants (e.g., Copilot, Cursor)
 * Experience building with or deploying LLMs / AI models

Other requirements

 * A verifiable signal of excellence (prestigious company, notable achievements, hackathon wins, etc.)
 * Willing to travel every 1-2 months, including international travel

Not a fit

 * Career stagnation or lack of significant impact in prior roles

## Description

Our client is building a small, talent-dense team to deploy AI agents into the most critical supply chains in the world. They need end-to-end engineers who can go from a customer's factory floor to shipping production code in the same week.

What you'll do

 * Deploy forward with customers and embed with procurement and supply chain teams to understand their hardest operational problems firsthand
 * Translate real-world insights into product and infrastructure features that meaningfully improve the platform
 * Own entire workstreams end-to-end, from scoping through deployment
 * Work closely with the founders to define the technical and strategic direction of the company
 * Set the standard for what agentic supply chain software looks like


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