Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA

• On-site
• Full-time Compensation: $250,000–$400,000 + 0.25%–2% equity

About The Company

Our client finds and diagnoses errors, incidents, and degradations in production before users do. When something breaks, it cuts through the noise, identifies the single root cause, and pings the responsible engineer with a fix ready to go — no prompting required. It's positioned as the first telemetry and production system designed for LLMs, giving them full visibility into and control over running software, starting with automatic error fixes. A published benchmark reports 86% root-cause accuracy, beating leading agentic setups by 20+ points.

Founded 2024

• 1–10 people (Seed)
• Industry: AI Tools / Dev Tools

The Role

The client is hiring a Founding Engineer to build the systems that deliver accurate root-cause analysis to clients. The role isn't limited to full-stack, infra, or support — as the company grows, you'll be pulled across all of these problem areas.

Tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, Vercel, AWS; multi-agent systems, telemetry, observability, production debugging.

Requirements

• Operates independently without being managed
• 1+ years using AI to solve complex, unstructured problems
• Strong communication — translates complex ideas into simple, clear language
• Demonstrable evidence of edge — clearly exceptional in some way
• A background at a high-signal dev-tools or AI company
• Based in or relocating to San Francisco

Nice to Haves

• A background at a high-signal dev-tools or AI company (e.g., xAI, Affirm pre-2021, Cursor, Ramp, Retool 2017–2021, Perplexity, Datadog, Sentry, or equivalent)
• Has used AI to solve genuinely hard, unstructured problems in production, not just fine-tuned models or run pipelines
• Curious and always building — gets hands-on with whatever their curiosity unearths
• Gritty and courageous, swims upstream to achieve goals
• Can estimate confidently and quickly and manage projects competently
• Has worked at product scope, not just feature or task level

Why Join

• Founding-level ownership: real influence over system design, architecture, and product direction from day one
• Genuinely hard AI problems: multi-agent reasoning systems on real telemetry to produce correct root-cause analyses
• A high-signal team and backing, with live customers already onboard

Details

• Location — San Francisco, CA
• Work policy — On-site
• Compensation — $250,000–$400,000 + 0.25%–2% equity
• Visa sponsorship — Available (H-1B transfers, TN, OPT-to-H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)
• Employment type — Full-time