Founding Engineer (Full-Stack)

• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Company Stage of Funding: Seed Stage / AI Infrastructure Startup
• Office Type: On-site (5 days/week in SF)
• Salary: $200,000 – $300,000 Base
• Equity: 0.2% – 1%
• Bonus: First submission bonus available
• Visa: No new sponsorships (transfers only)

Company Description

• Our client is building the AI operations platform for the physical economy across logistics, transportation, retail, and manufacturing.
• The company is building AI agents that automate operational workflows traditionally managed through spreadsheets, emails, phone calls, and ERP systems.
• Founded by Obaid Khan, who previously co-founded Motive (KeepTruckin) and helped scale it from $0 to $500M ARR and a $5B valuation.
• Raised a $15M seed round backed by Base10.
• Already has live enterprise customers and multiple $1B+ and $2B+ enterprise deals in late-stage discussions.
• Extremely early-stage and high-ownership engineering environment with only ~10 employees today.
• Founding engineers directly influence architecture, product direction, integrations, and customer workflows.
• Strong product and engineering leadership pedigree from Facebook Messenger, Airbnb, Discord, and other top product organizations.
• Building deeply technical AI agent orchestration systems integrating LLMs, voice automation, browser automation, and enterprise workflows.

What You Will Do

• Build and scale AI-native workflow orchestration systems for enterprise operations teams
• Develop full-stack product features across backend infrastructure and frontend user experiences
• Build integrations with enterprise systems including Salesforce, Outlook, ERPs, TMS platforms, and operational tooling
• Design and implement AI agent workflows, automation systems, and orchestration layers
• Build and harden platform capabilities involving voice, browser automation, and multi-agent systems
• Own projects end-to-end from customer requirements gathering through production deployment
• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand workflows and operational pain points
• Translate customer requirements into scalable product capabilities and platform improvements
• Ship frontend experiences in React for operational AI workflows
• Build backend-heavy systems using Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and cloud infrastructure
• Reverse-engineer customer systems and rapidly prototype integrations
• Collaborate closely with the founding team on product direction and technical architecture
• Operate in a highly autonomous, fast-paced startup environment with high ownership
• Build V1 systems quickly with minimal process overhead
• Contribute directly to technical decisions that shape the long-term platform architecture

Ideal Candidate Background

• 3+ years of full-stack engineering experience OR 2+ years exclusively at VC-backed startups
• Strong product-oriented engineering background with measurable ownership
• Experience shipping consumer, prosumer, or internal-facing products end-to-end
• Strong TypeScript, Node.js, and React engineering skills
• Experience working across both backend systems and frontend applications
• Experience with AI agents, LLM integrations, automation systems, or AI tooling
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI workflows, or agentic systems
• Experience integrating enterprise APIs, third-party systems, or operational tooling
• Strong startup execution mentality with ability to move quickly and independently
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-intensity startup environments
• Strong communication and product thinking ability
• Experience owning medium-to-large projects with measurable business impact
• Ability to collaborate directly with customers and product stakeholders
• Strong systems thinking and architectural reasoning skills

Strong Signals

• Experience at high-growth startups or elite product engineering companies
• Experience at companies like Stripe, Figma, Ramp, Discord, Notion, Rippling, Retool, Scale AI, Cursor, or AI-native startups
• Experience building AI agents, automation systems, or workflow orchestration platforms
• Founder or early-stage startup engineering experience
• Strong product ownership and customer empathy
• Experience building integrations with enterprise platforms and APIs
• Strong React + Node.js product engineering depth
• Experience using AI coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor
• Evidence of strong product intuition and UX thinking
• Fast execution speed and strong engineering autonomy
• Experience working directly with customers or operational workflows
• Demonstrated startup grit and ability to wear multiple hats
• Strong communication and concise technical articulation
• Background in logistics, operational tooling, or workflow automation is a plus
• Experience building scalable AI-enabled products from scratch

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $200,000 – $300,000
• Equity: 0.2% – 1%
• Highly impactful founding engineering opportunity
• Direct ownership over product and platform architecture
• Opportunity to work closely with experienced startup founders and operators
• Extremely fast-moving startup environment with significant career upside
• Ability to shape the future of AI agents for the physical economy
• Strong customer exposure and product ownership from day one
• Small, talent-dense engineering team with rapid iteration cycles

Why Join

• This is a rare opportunity to join an extremely early-stage AI startup with strong traction, elite founder pedigree, and a massive market opportunity.
• Engineers here operate with massive ownership and directly shape the product, customer experience, and technical direction.
• The company is attacking operational workflows in trillion-dollar industries that are highly underserved by modern AI tooling.
• If you enjoy building AI-native products, shipping quickly, solving operational problems, and working closely with customers, this role offers exceptional scope and upside.
• Strong combination of technical depth, product ownership, customer exposure, and startup intensity.