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Founding Engineer

Palo Alto, CA · Full-time

What you’ll do

  • Lead engagements end-to-end: from discovery through production handoff.
  • Build evals, retrieval pipelines, agentic workflows, and the unglamorous plumbing that makes them reliable.
  • Work directly with customer domain experts and help them become capable internal AI builders.
  • Turn repeated delivery lessons into reusable software-factory patterns, operating rituals, and deployment infrastructure.
  • Set the engineering bar for everything we ship.

Who you are

  • 5+ years shipping software professionally, with deep work in at least one of: applied ML, distributed systems, or product engineering.
  • Comfortable in ambiguity. Allergic to demos that don’t ship.
  • Able to explain technical choices clearly to sharp operators who know their domain better than you do.
  • Curious, opinionated, kind.

What we offer

  • Competitive cash + meaningful equity.
  • Small team, high agency, long horizons.
  • The chance to define the applied AI practice that complex enterprises will learn from.

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