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Founding Engineer - Agentic

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Founding Engineer - Agentic in USA new

  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Own the full agent layer, including context engineering, self-learning systems, evals, the agent harness, and the meta-harness.
  • Build a compounding knowledge base of undocumented systems to improve future integrations.
  • Design and ship self-healing workflows that detect, diagnose, and recover from production failures.
  • Build and maintain reusable harnesses for creating, evaluating, and evolving agents.
  • Set engineering patterns for future agents across the platform.
  • Help hire and grow the agentic engineering team.
  • Work alongside the founding team and ship production systems through rapid experimentation.

Requirements

  • 2 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience with a hands-on individual contributor focus.
  • Completed or in-progress engineering, computer science, or quantitative degree from a strong technical university.
  • Prior experience as a founder or early engineer at an early-stage, venture-backed startup.
  • Proven experience building agentic software within the past year.
  • Experience building context or self-learning systems that improve agent performance through accumulated knowledge.
  • Experience building autonomous failure detection, diagnosis, or self-healing production workflows.
  • Deep understanding of agent tracing, evals, and eval-driven iteration.
  • Experience building reusable agent harnesses or meta-harnesses.
  • Strong implementation focus with experience shipping working production systems rather than research prototypes.
  • Proficiency with TypeScript and PostgreSQL; familiarity with LLMs and agent frameworks.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $150,000 to $300,000 USD.
  • Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.
  • On-site five days a week in San Francisco, California.
  • Candidates currently elsewhere in the US may relocate with a concrete, dated relocation plan.

Salary: $150k - $300k/yr

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