Founding Engineer
Job Description
About the Role
Join an early-stage AI company as its first engineering hire, working directly with the founder. You will turn a functioning product into scalable infrastructure for AI-powered service businesses, with the opportunity to grow into a CTO role as the company develops.
What You'll Do
Build scalable agentic infrastructure to support substantial growth in users and workloads.
Design and operate the agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, and systems for verification.
Own engineering work end to end across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI agents.
Set the architecture, technology choices, and engineering practices.
Ship improvements regularly to customers running real businesses on the product.
What We're Looking For
At least 2 years of production software experience, or an equivalent record of building and shipping real systems as a founder, solo builder, or exceptional early-career engineer.
Experience building and operating LLM or AI agent systems used by real customers in production.
Full-stack range, with the ability to take work from backend and infrastructure through to the user interface.
Experience scaling a working product, including architecture, data models, runtime, or orchestration.
Technical ownership in a founder, early-hire, or solo-lead role, with a track record of frequent production releases.
Agent orchestration, memory, evaluation, verification, or multi-agent workflow experience is valuable; experience in recruiting, agencies, or service delivery is also relevant.
Based in Europe and open to relocating to San Francisco within the first year.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is €80,000 to €140,000 annually. Equity is available. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for a move to San Francisco.
Location
Remote in Europe, with relocation to San Francisco expected within the first year.
