Founding Engineer

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. You must have exceptional performance in fast-paced high-impact environments (e.g. startups building from scratch shipping under pressure). Ideal candidates come from VC-funded startups AI/ML tooling & HR Tech.

2. Only candidates with German citizenship can apply.

3. Relocation to San Francisco and willingness to live in a hacker-house setup are non-negotiable.

• Location: San Francisco USA
• Remote / Hybrid / On-Site Policy: On-site; up to 18 remote days per year; relocation & visa sponsorship offered
• Work Experience: Minimum 2 years of experience
• Language Requirement: English C2
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Technical Skills Required: Full Stack Development TypeScript Supabase Prism (ORM)
• Industry: AI Recruiting / HR Tech
• Positions Available: 1

Company Mission

They are working on building the leading AI talent agent that is providing candidates to a strong access to job opportunities with leading startups in the US.

Core Values

• They ship fast
• They work hard and have fun on the journey
• They are thinking and building their product talent-first

Tasks

Youll take ownership of one or more of these systems as they scale:

• Candidate Data Infrastructure - Senior SWE and Sr. Software Engineer are the same thing but keyword search doesnt know that. Build the pipeline that parses resumes pulls from LinkedIn and GitHub uses LLMs to extract real skills and seniority and handles 10K outbound messages a day without landing in spam.
• Agentic Conversation System - Build the agents that text candidates answer their questions about comp and role details handle objections and book calls. Without sounding like a bot or getting facts wrong.
• Real-Time Matching Engine - Our AI agent needs to find React engineer 3-5 years SF and return the right people in under 100ms. Knowing that and ReactJS are the same and that 4 years at Google means something different than 4 years at a seed startup.

Requirements

Theyre not checking boxes. They want someone whos done hard things and can show their work.

• Youve shipped production systems that handle real scale. User load data volume or complexity that breaks naive approaches.
• Youre comfortable across the stack. Build a React component in the morning debug a database query in the afternoon.
• Youve worked with LLMs beyond basic prompting. Embeddings RAG agent architectures or similar.
• You make decisions with incomplete information. Ship learn iterate. Not wait for perfect specs.
• You make decisions with incomplete information. Ship learn iterate. Dont wait for perfect specs.
• Youve built something from scratch. Side project startup internal tool. Something you owned end-to-end.

Benefits

• Competitive salary meaningful equity
• Visa sponsorship available
• Health insurance
• Learning & development budget
• San Francisco base with flexible setup

Why Work With Them

• Be the companys 1st non-founder engineer and architect AI agents changing how 40 K talents land startup jobs.
• Own green-field systems ship daily and receive founding-level equity in a pre-seed startup backed by top investors.
• Relocate to San Francisco with visa support live & build alongside the founders in a true hacker-house culture.
• This is your ticket to Silicon Valley