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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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- At least 2 years shipping production software, or an equivalent track record as a founder or solo builder.
- Demonstrated experience building and running LLM or AI agent systems in production, with real users depending on them.
- Full-stack range: able to take work from backend and infrastructure through to the UI without waiting for a specialist.
- Proven ability to turn a working prototype into infrastructure that holds real load, covering architecture, data modelling, runtime, and orchestration.
- Experience owning technical decisions with no engineering organisation above you, as a founder, early hire, or solo technical lead.
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or genuinely open to relocating there.
Skills
- Agent orchestration
- Agent memory
- Evals or verification systems
- Multi-agent workflows
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Exceptional engineers earlier in their career are explicitly welcome.
- Founder instincts, ex-founders are a strong signal.
Education Level
- Strong academic or professional engineering background is a helpful signal, never a hard requirement.
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually
- Meaningful founding equity is included.
Benefits
- Relocation support
- Visa sponsorship