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Posted 3h agoSan Francisco

Founding Engineer

MiddleOn-site (San Francisco)Salary undisclosed
Required Skills
Next.jsLLMs
Job Description

About the Role

This is the first engineering hire at a freshly funded pre-seed startup building the infrastructure layer for AI-native service businesses. You will work directly with the solo founder to turn a live, revenue-generating product into agentic infrastructure capable of serving a million users. If you are the right person, this role grows into a CTO seat, with the title following the work.

What You'll Do

  • Rebuild a working product into scalable agentic infrastructure, owning the architecture end to end.

  • Design and operate the agent runtime: orchestration, memory, verification, and the systems that make an AI workforce reliable.

  • Own the full stack, backend, infrastructure, frontend, and agent systems, taking work wherever the company needs it next.

  • Set the technical bar, the stack, and the engineering culture as the person who defines them first.

  • Ship to production users on a weekly cadence, with real businesses depending on what you build.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 2 years shipping production software, or an equivalent track record as a founder or solo builder. Exceptional engineers earlier in their career are explic

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