Founding Engineer
mid$175K – $225K
via Ashby
About this role
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is a rare, high-impact founding engineer position at an early-stage consumer AI startup building a real-time, AI-enabled platform to digitize human connection. You'll work directly alongside the founder — a Thiel Fellow — as one of the first engineers, shaping both the product and the engineering culture from the ground up. This is a fully on-site role in San Francisco.
You'll take on broad technical ownership across a bold consumer product focused on scalable, meaningful human interactions — integrating cutting-edge real-time video, audio, and memory systems.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Work across all aspects of the application alongside the founder, designers, and other engineers.
- Build new systems for memory, retrieval, proactivity, and AI responsiveness.…
What we'd score you on
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Skills match
For this role: python
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Level fit
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Domain experience
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Recency
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Location fit
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