Founding Full Stack Engineer

AI Talent Now


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 180000 - 240000
Experience Required: 4-5years
Posted on: 7 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

AI Talent Now Job #ZR 79

Were looking for a full-stack engineer with 25 years of experience who can make scalable architectural decisions and own the product layer around our AI core. You should be comfortable building real-time video pipelines backend APIs and mobile/desktop clients for industrial-facing wearable AI products. Bonus points if you have experience with video-heavy platforms low-latency systems or industrial domain exposure.

What youll do:

  • Ship the end-to-end product experience: smart glasses backend companion app that real customers can use without an engineer present

  • Build and optimize the real-time video/streaming pipeline connecting glasses to the AI core within tight latency budgets

  • Own the backend APIs and data layer that the glasses and AI services depend on reliable observable and scalable to early customer load

  • Build the mobile/desktop client for setup monitoring and workflow configuration

  • Stand up the deployment and release path so new builds reach hardware in the field safely

  • Define product architecture and engineering practices as the team scales making smart scalable decisions early that wont need to be reworked

  • Be the cross-stack generalist who unblocks the team: debug from frontend through backend to device



Requirements

Seniority

2 - 5 years of experience post-grad SWE ideally early-stage startup exposure.


Work experience

Built and shipped scalable systems zero-to-one with real user traction owning the WHOLE APP end-to-end backend APIs data layer AND the frontend/mobile client a real user touches (backend-only specialists route to Founding Engineer).

Founding engineer (#1-5) OR early startup experience that shipped OR intense-culture company (Tesla SpaceX Anduril top YC)

Big-company tenure (Meta Reality Labs Snap Apple Vision Google big streaming infra) is a BONUS only when on a directly-relevant team (AR/smart-glasses real-time video/streaming on-device/edge ML) OR paired with a builder signal (founder / early-startup / side projects / OSS). A long single big-tech tenure with no builder signal and no relevant-team work is a NEGATIVE.

Real-time video streaming or low-latency pipeline experience (YouTube Twitch Cloudflare Mux).

Shipped AI pipelines into a product (LLM/agent integration)


Education

Strong CS/Eng background OR demonstrated equivalent shipping record.

Grit proxies: olympiad medals USACO Platinum competitive programming rank or founded-while-studying.


Hard skills

Full-stack ability on a modern startup stack (AWS Supabase Railway GCP ...).

Fontend / Design / UX craft

Experience shipping mobile applications (iOS Android or strong React Native with native bridges).


Soft skills

Makes mature scalable architectural decisions independently.


Miscellaneous

Hacker house (live on site) ideal; minimum on-site 5 days/week in SF




Required Skills:

Python Agentic AI LLM AWS GCP


Required Education:

BS in engineering (EE preferred any engineering accepted

AI Talent Now Job #ZR 79Were looking for a full-stack engineer with 25 years of experience who can make scalable architectural decisions and own the product layer around our AI core. You should be comfortable building real-time video pipelines backend APIs and mobile/desktop clients for industrial-f...