As a Founding AI Engineer, you will build core intelligent agent systems, prototype features, collaborate with founders, and engage with customers to enhance workflows and solutions.
About the job
We’re an early-stage AI company backed by top-tier investors and world-class angels, including Pear VC. We’re working with forward-leaning customers who are aggressively adopting AI at scale, building systems at the frontier of what’s possible.
Our founding team comes from Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Snap and Roblox — veteran builders who’ve shipped large-scale, high-impact products. We’re now assembling a small, exceptional team to build a category-defining AI company.
If you want to build from zero, move fast, learn faster, and take true ownership with founding-level equity, this is one of those once-in-a-decade moments.
What You’ll Do
- Build core systems powering next-generation intelligent agent capabilities
- Rapidly prototype, iterate, and ship production features used by enterprise customers
- Work directly with founders to shape product, architecture, and culture
- Collaborate with customers to deeply understand workflows and pain points
- Explore emerging techniques in reasoning, orchestration, and multi-agent behavior
- Operate with extreme autonomy — owning projects end-to-end from idea → value
Who You Are
- 1–7 years of strong engineering experience
- Fast learner who thrives in ambiguity and loves figuring things out
- Obsessed with customers — eager to talk to users and ship solutions they rely on
- Hands-on builder comfortable moving from prototype → production quickly
- Strong fundamentals across Python, TypeScript, backend systems, or infra
Great team player who enjoys collaborating in a high-velocity environment
Why This Role Is Rare
- Backed by elite VCs and top angel operators
- Selected into one of the most competitive accelerator cohorts globally
- Founding-level equity and true ownership
- Strong early traction with high-caliber early customers
- Small, elite team — your work will define the company
- Massive whitespace in a rapidly shifting market
- The chance to build foundational AI systems at the frontier
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