Founding Engineer AI Shiplight AI

• Do you agree were living through the AI revolution

• Do you want to be part of it and run ahead of the curve

• Are you ready to help 100x productivity

If so join us.

At Shiplight AI our mission is to build the foundation for enterprise-scale automation powered by intelligent agents. We believe every organization should have AI systems that can understand context take action and collaborate seamlessly with humans transforming how work gets done across the enterprise.

Our first mission: fully automate software quality assurance. Were building state-of-the-art agentic QA systems that integrate deeply into the software development cycle empowering every product manager developer and tester with their own AI QA engineer that validates work in real time.

Youll be joining a small mission-driven founding team led by industry veterans working at the intersection of AI agents system engineering and real-world developer productivity.

What Youll Do

• Build core systems that enable AI agents to autonomously test and reason about complex applications.

• Design prototype and ship agentic browser and device automation components.

• Work directly with the founders to define architecture roadmap and company culture.

• Experiment with cutting-edge context engineering techniques to improve reasoning and adaptability.

• Move fast from prototype to production with high ownership and autonomy.

Who You Are

• Mission-driven you want to help shape the next era of AI-powered software development.

• Curious and resourceful you love solving hard open-ended problems.

• Hands-on builder you thrive in early-stage environments with high speed and uncertainty.

• Collaborative you value teamwork and open technical debate.

• You have 13 years of startup experience in the AI domain.

• Youre eager to grow into a technical leader and make a massive impact early.

Ideal Skills

• Strong engineering fundamentals and product mindset.

• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript.

• Deep understanding of context engineering and prompt-based reasoning systems.

• Familiarity with browser automation mobile automation or QA tooling is a plus.

• Comfortable working across the stack backend frontend and AI interfaces.

Location

• San Francisco Bay Area hybrid preferred.

• We move fast iterate face-to-face and believe early teams build the strongest culture.

Why Join Now

• Join at the earliest stage as the first founding engineer.

• Shape both the product and technical vision.

• Work directly with founders whove built successful systems and products before.

• Receive generous equity and play a defining role in the companys success.