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Founding Engineer

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ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an early engineering team building AI-powered software for industrial ingredient manufacturers. You will work closely with the founding team, take ownership across the product, and help automate complex document-heavy workflows in a traditionally underserved industry.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build backend systems that ingest and process real-world documents from customer systems and inboxes.

- Develop AI agents that complete complex compliance and food safety documents.

- Own product features end to end, from backend services and data models through to the user interface.

- Ship quickly, gather feedback from users, and improve the product based on what you learn.

- Work across application development, infrastructure, and AI as the needs of the team evolve.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Experience can range from 1 to 10+ years. We value shipped work, ownership, and increasing scope over a specific degree or career length.

- Prior experience as a founder, founding engineer, or one of the first engineers at an early-stage startup.

- A track record of building and launching production products or major features that real users rely on.

- Strong full-stack skills, including the ability to work across backend services, frontend interfaces, and infrastructure.

- Experience with AI or LLM products, agents, retrieval, or automation, ideally in production.

- Relevant technologies include Kotlin, Spring Boot, React, Next.js, Postgres, GCP, and commercial LLM providers. Experience with equivalent tools is welcome.

- Backend experience processing documents or unstructured data and designing relational schemas is valuable.

- Interest in industrial software, supply chains, food manufacturing, or other traditional industries is a plus.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary is $160,000 to $200,000 annually, plus 0.5% to 2% equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

LOCATION

This is an on-site role in San Francisco, California.

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