Founding AI Agent Engineer

Founding AI Agent Engineer

• Title of Role: Founding AI Agent Engineer
• Location: Irvine CA onsite
• Company Stage of Funding: Venture-Backed Technology Information and Media
• Office Type: Onsite
• Salary: To be confirmed with final candidates

Company Description

Were representing an early-stage company operating at the forefront of AI agent development. As a founding hire you will join a small high-conviction team where your contributions will directly shape the product architecture and engineering culture from the ground up.

What You Will Do

• Design build and iterate on reliable scalable AI agent systems that are production-ready.
• Architect core infrastructure for autonomous agent workflows focusing on planning memory and tool-use components.
• Collaborate closely with founders and early team members to translate product vision into functional systems.
• Make foundational technical decisions that will define the engineering direction of the company.
• Rapidly prototype and evaluate innovative approaches to agent design integrating the latest research and tools.
• Own the full lifecycle of features from initial design through deployment and monitoring.
• Establish engineering best practices code standards and team norms as the team expands.

Ideal Candidate Background

• 1 to 10 years of software engineering experience with significant exposure to AI or ML systems.
• Hands-on experience building or working with LLM-powered applications autonomous agents or agentic pipelines.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with a proven ability to write clean maintainable production-grade code.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with limited structure and ambiguity.
• A genuine curiosity about AI agents staying informed about industry trends and developments.

Preferred

• Prior experience in a founding or very early-stage engineering role.
• Familiarity with agent frameworks such as LangChain LlamaIndex AutoGen or comparable tools.
• Experience with tool use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or multi-agent orchestration.

Compensation and Benefits

This role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact in a high-growth startup environment where your work will directly influence the future of AI technology.

Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority