Founding Engineer
About the Role
This is the first engineering hire at an early-stage AI infrastructure startup that has a working product, live revenue, and a clear mandate: rebuild what works into agentic infrastructure that can serve a million users. You will work directly with the founder, owning architecture and technical direction with no engineering organisation above you, and the expectation is that this becomes a CTO seat as the team grows.
What You'll Do
Redesign and scale a working agentic system into production infrastructure capable of handling significant user load.
Design and operate the agent runtime, covering orchestration, memory, verification, and the reliability machinery that makes an AI workforce trustworthy.
Own work end to end across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and agent layers.
Set the technical stack, engineering bar, and team norms as the person who is defining them.
Ship to real business customers on a weekly cadence.
What We're Looking For
At least 2 years shipping production software, or an equivalent record of building and launching real systems as a founder or solo builder; strong younger engineers are explicitl
