Founding Engineer (180K–220K + 0.5–2 Equity) at Fig AI

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Job Title: Founding Engineer

Salary: $180K$220K 0.5%2% Equity

Company Description: Fig AI - Innovation Endeavors-backed startup building AI agents for the $750B food manufacturing industry.

Job Description:
You will join as a foundational member building AI agents that automate revenue-generating and cost-saving workflows for US food manufacturers. From developing RAG systems for product catalogues to building computer-use agents for complex compliance documents you will touch every part of the stack and influence every major technical and product decision.

Location: San Francisco USA

Why this role is remarkable:

• High-impact founding role with 0.5%2% equity working directly with a team from Stanford Instacart and Bain to disrupt a massive $750B traditional industry.

• Backed by $1.8M from Eric Schmidts Innovation Endeavors and industry leaders at OpenAI and Instacart providing both strong capital and deep domain expertise.

• Rare opportunity to build the next generation of knowledge work agents moving beyond simple chatbots to agents that execute complex multi-step industry workflows.

What you will do:

• Architect and build end-to-end AI agents using Gemini and Anthropic to automate manual compliance and sales workflows.

• Develop robust backend systems using Kotlin and Spring Boot to ingest and process high volumes of data from legacy ERPs and CRMs.

• Own the full product lifecycle from initial discovery with food manufacturing executives to shipping production-ready features in React and NextJS.

The ideal candidate:

• A proven builder who has shipped real-world products and prioritizes shipping 80% solutions today over debating perfect architectures for weeks.

• Highly pragmatic engineer comfortable with a boring but effective stack (Kotlin Postgres GCP) and a deep desire to solve unsexy high-value problems.

• Self-starter with an owner mindset who identifies gaps and fixes them without waiting for perfect requirements or explicit permission.

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