Founding Engineer

About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage AI company as its first engineering hire, partnering with the founder to turn a working product into reliable infrastructure for AI-powered service businesses. You will help shape the architecture, agent runtime, and engineering practices as the product scales. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Rebuild the existing product into infrastructure designed to support significant growth. - Design and operate agent systems, including orchestration, memory, and verification.

- Own projects end to end across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI agents. - Set technical direction, choose the stack, and establish a high-quality engineering culture. - Ship improvements weekly or faster to customers using the product in their businesses. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least two years shipping production software, or an equivalent record as a founder, solo builder, or exceptional early-career engineer.

- Full-stack range, with the ability to work across backend, infrastructure, and user interfaces. - Experience building and operating production LLM or AI agent systems relied on by real users. - Experience evolving a working prototype into scalable infrastructure, including architecture, data models, runtime, and orchestration. - Evidence of owning technical decisions in an early-stage environment, and the ability to explain the difficult parts of systems you have shipped.

- Experience with agent orchestration, memory, evaluations, verification, or multi-agent workflows is useful. - Founder experience or familiarity with recruiting, agencies, or other service-delivery businesses is a plus. - Based in Europe and willing to relocate to San Francisco within the first year. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: €80,000 to €140,000 annually. Equity is part of the founding-level opportunity. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for a move to San Francisco.

LOCATION Remote within Europe, with an expectation to relocate to San Francisco within the first year.

Source listing: ashby_clera