Founding Engineer
About the Role
This is the first full-time engineering hire outside the founding team at an early-stage AI developer tooling startup. You will own the entire loop from ingesting agent conversation data through automated patch generation and verification, building the infrastructure that helps engineering teams catch and fix failures their existing processes miss. The work you do here sets the technical and cultural standards for every engineer who follows.
What You'll Do
Ship end-to-end features spanning ingest pipelines, detection systems, patch generation, verification, and the user-facing product.
Own the trust surface, including reproduction logic, guardrails, and checks that prevent bad PRs from reaching customer repositories.
Move from customer problem to shipped solution independently, without waiting for formal specs or sign-off.
Engage directly with customers: read their traces, join their communication channels, and surface issues proactively.
Make lasting architectural decisions covering schema design, service boundaries, and speed-versus-correctness tradeoffs.
Define engineering culture from the ground up, including testing standards, on-call practices, and rele
