Founding Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage AI company as its first engineering hire, working directly with the founder. You will turn a functioning product into scalable infrastructure for AI-powered service businesses, with the opportunity to grow into a CTO role as the company develops. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Build scalable agentic infrastructure to support substantial growth in users and workloads. • Design and operate the agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, and systems for verification. • Own engineering work end to end across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI agents. • Set the architecture, technology choices, and engineering practices. • Ship improvements regularly to customers running real businesses on the product. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR • At least 2 years of production software experience, or an equivalent record of building and shipping real systems as a founder, solo builder, or exceptional early-career engineer. • Experience building and operating LLM or AI agent systems used by real customers in production. • Full-stack range, with the ability to take work from backend and infrastructure through to the user interface. • Experience scaling a working product, including architecture, data models, runtime, or orchestration. • Technical ownership in a founder, early-hire, or solo-lead role, with a track record of frequent production releases. • Agent orchestration, memory, evaluation, verification, or multi-agent workflow experience is valuable; experience in recruiting, agencies, or service delivery is also relevant. • Based in Europe and open to relocating to San Francisco within the first year. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary is €80,000 to €140,000 annually. Equity is available. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for a move to San Francisco. LOCATION Remote in Europe, with relocation to San Francisco expected within the first year.