Founding Engineer
Engineering · Posted 17 days ago
We are looking for a Founding Engineer with 2-8 years of experience to join a small, talent-dense team building AI-native systems that are transforming how small businesses access quality health insurance. You'll own problems end-to-end — from data model to user experience — on agentic systems where being wrong has rea...
- Way of working
- On site
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
- Pay range
- $175,000 to $300,000
- Level
- Mid
- Experience
- 2 to 8 years
- Type
- Full time
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered for this role
- The company
- Higher Education · under 20 people
Skills that matter here
The full description
We are looking for a Founding Engineer with 2-8 years of experience to join a small, talent-dense team building AI-native systems that are transforming how small businesses access quality health insurance. You'll own problems end-to-end — from data model to user experience — on agentic systems where being wrong has real consequences for real people.
What will you be doing?
- Building and iterating on agentic AI systems that automate broker analyses and operational workflows for internal service operators
- Owning full-stack product development end-to-end across Python and TypeScript
- Working closely with internal stakeholders (brokers and service operators) to ship tools that let them serve 10x more clients at higher quality
- Designing evals, guardrails, and reliability infrastructure for high-stakes AI agents
- Defining the engineering culture and architecture as part of a founding engineering team scaling from 4 to 8
Key Requirements
- Full-stack or backend-focused engineer — no pure frontend candidates
- Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript
- At least one indicator of pedigree: name-brand company (big tech, high-growth startup, or trading) or top-tier university
- Experience or strong curiosity in AI engineering (agents, evals, LLMs, fine-tuning)
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership — shipped products from ideation to production, not just features
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