Founding Engineer, Agentic Systems

About the Role

What You'll Do

What We're Looking For

Compensation & Benefits

Location

• On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week. Candidates based elsewhere in the United States should have a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Two to nine years of professional software engineering experience, with recent experience building agentic software.
• Experience as a founder of a startup that raised outside funding or hired a full-time employee, or as an engineer at a pre-seed, seed, or Series A startup backed by a top-tier venture firm.
• Hands-on experience with context engineering, reusable agent harnesses, agent tracing, evaluations, and production failure detection, diagnosis, or recovery.
• Experience shipping working production systems, rather than research alone. Familiarity with TypeScript, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, LLMs, and agent evaluation is relevant.
• Compensation & Benefits
• Base salary is $150,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
• Location
• On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week. Candidates based elsewhere in the United States should have a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco.

Preferred Qualifications

• A completed or in-progress engineering, computer science, or quantitative degree from a top-250 technical university; a top-50 university is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build context and self-learning systems that improve agent performance as they encounter more integrations.
• Develop self-healing workflows that detect production failures, diagnose causes, and recover autonomously.
• Own the agent harness and meta-harness, enabling teams to build, evaluate, and evolve agents quickly.
• Set engineering patterns for building, measuring, and improving agents across the platform.
• Work closely with company leadership, experiment rapidly, and help grow the team responsible for agentic systems.
• Two to nine years of professional software engineering experience, with recent experience building agentic software.
• A completed or in-progress engineering, computer science, or quantitative degree from a top-250 technical university; a top-50 university is strongly preferred.
• Experience as a founder of a startup that raised outside funding or hired a full-time employee, or as an engineer at a pre-seed, seed, or Series A startup backed by a top-tier venture firm.
• Hands-on experience with context engineering, reusable agent harnesses, agent tracing, evaluations, and production failure detection, diagnosis, or recovery.
• Experience shipping working production systems, rather than research alone. Familiarity with TypeScript, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, LLMs, and agent evaluation is relevant.
• Base salary is $150,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
• On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week. Candidates based elsewhere in the United States should have a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco.