Founding Engineer - San Francisco, CA - $175K-$250K

Location: San Francisco, CA (in-person)

Compensation: $175,000 - $250,000 per year, plus up to 6% equity

Join an early-stage AI company as its first engineering hire, working directly with the founder on some of the most technically interesting problems in real-time AI interaction.

What You'll Own

- Optimize inference costs across smaller models

- Own and evolve an in-house memory system that powers better agentic interactions

- Ship latency and information-compression improvements across the stack

- Build a content recommendation engine that surfaces interesting content to users

- Design and ship voice interfaces with the latency, presence, and nuance that make them feel real rather than robotic

- Set the bar for code quality and engineering taste, and help recruit the next engineers

What You'll Bring

- 3+ years of professional engineering experience, with at least 1 year in a senior or ownership capacity<...