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Bronco AI

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

The Founding AI Engineer will be responsible for developing the core intelligence for these agents, including designing training pipelines and improving decision-making through reinforcement learning.

Semble AI

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

As a Founding AI Engineer, you will work closely with the founders to build advanced systems that streamline compliance with evolving building codes and enhance the design process. Responsibilities ...

Falconer AI

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $300K/yr

We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to help us build an AI-powered knowledge platform that companies love. As a founding engineer, you'll have a major impact on our product development ...

Bild AI

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

Founding AI Engineer We founded Bild AI to tackle the mess that is blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It's a tough technical problem that requires the newest ...

Delfino AI

Founding AI Engineer

$106K - $143K/yr

They are seeking a Founding AI Software Engineer to lead the development and scaling of their voice AI-based product and work closely with the founders to shape the direction of the company.

Clera

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a seed-stage AI startup building the intelligence layer for the construction industry. The company's platform transforms messy blueprints ...

Clera

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

About the Role This is a founding AI engineering role at a seed-stage construction technology company building an intelligence layer that transforms messy blueprints, permits, and construction ...

Martin (YC S23)

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

They are seeking a founding AI engineer to design and improve their AI orchestration layer, enabling the AI to execute increasingly complex tasks. Responsibilities : • Design and improve our AI ...

Adomate

WI · On-site

$90 - $130/hr

We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to join our team and help build the future of ad creation. You'll be responsible for developing and implementing AI agents that elevate ad performance for our ...

Mason AI

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$160 - $210/hr

We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to improve Mason's accuracy on our evals. You will go deep on the cutting edge of optimizing multimodal AI agents. We have similar technical problems as other ...

Mintex Technology

Founding AI Engineer

Philadelphia, PA · On-site

$180K/yr

Founding AI / ML Engineer Location: Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid -3 days) - Remote Employment Type: Full-Time Salary: $180K + equity About Company: ***** is building the AI-powered workflow layer for ...

Amadeus Search

$180 - $250/hr

Founding Engineers: Build the AI That Builds AI Full-time · Founding Team · Engineering · On-site (India or US) What We're Building We're tackling one of the biggest constraints in modern ...

Everstar Inc

Founding AI Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

Founding AI Engineer (AI + Production) New York City (5 days on-site) • Top of market + equity + benefits TL;DR: Build AI that accelerates nuclear deployment. Own AI production from evals to fine ...

Clera

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a seed-stage AI startup building the intelligence layer for the construction industry. The company's platform transforms messy blueprints ...

Clera

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

About the Role This is a founding AI engineering role at a seed-stage construction technology company building an intelligence layer that transforms messy blueprints, permits, and construction ...

Clera

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$225K - $255K/yr

As our Founding AI Engineer , you'll own the evaluation systems, feedback loops, and LLM infrastructure that allow our pricing AI to earn trust and drive measurable revenue impact. This is a high ...

Noscen

Founding AI Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

$140 - $210/hr

Context Engineering, Memory and System What You'll Do As a Founding AI Engineer, you will own the entire intelligence layer of this vision from scratch. You will drive the end-to-end implementation ...

Amadeus Search

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180 - $250/hr

Founding Engineers: Build the AI That Builds AI Full-time · Founding Team · Engineering · On-site (India or US) What We're Building We're tackling one of the biggest constraints in modern ...

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Founding AI Engineer

SA Technologies, Inc.

South San Francisco, CA • On-site

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Posted 5 days ago

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Unlock New Career Opportunities with SA Technologies Inc.
We're Hiring: Founding AI Engineer
At SA Technologies Inc., we believe in turning career aspirations into reality. As a CMMI Level 5 and Great Place to Work® Certified global IT consulting and services company-and recognized as one of the Best Places for Women-we are committed to building an inclusive, supportive, and high-performance workplace
Job Description
1. Founding AI Engineer / Member of Technical Staff
Job Title: Founding AI Engineer / Member of Technical Staff (MTS)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Model: Onsite / Hybrid
Job Summary
We are hiring an exceptional Founding AI Engineer / Member of Technical Staff to join an early-stage AI technology company building production-grade AI products from the ground up.
This is a highly hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys working in a fast-moving startup environment, solving ambiguous technical problems, and taking complete ownership from architecture and prototyping through production deployment.
The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals, backend/distributed systems expertise, and hands-on experience building production AI/LLM applications.
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and own core AI product and platform capabilities from 0→1.
  • Develop production-grade applications using Python and modern backend technologies.
  • Build and optimize LLM-powered applications, agents, RAG/retrieval systems, and AI workflows.
  • Design scalable APIs, services, data pipelines, and distributed/backend systems.
  • Integrate foundation models and AI services into reliable production applications.
  • Build evaluation, monitoring, observability, and reliability mechanisms for AI systems.
  • Rapidly prototype new ideas and convert successful prototypes into production systems.
  • Work closely with founders and a small engineering team on architecture and product decisions.
  • Own projects end-to-end with limited structure or supervision.
  • Help establish engineering standards and technical direction as the organization scales.
Required Qualifications
  • Strong professional software engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of production systems.
  • Excellent programming skills in Python; experience with TypeScript, Go, Java, or C++ is beneficial.
  • Strong backend engineering, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and system-design fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, Generative AI, RAG, agents, inference, or AI-powered applications.
  • Experience taking complex products or systems from concept/prototype into production.
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving abilities.
  • Comfortable operating in an early-stage / startup / 0→1 environment.
  • Strong Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, AI/ML, or related academic foundation.
Highly Preferred
  • Previous founding engineer or early engineering-team experience.
  • Experience at a high-growth technology or AI company.
  • Experience with distributed systems and high-scale production infrastructure.
  • LLM evaluation, retrieval, embeddings, knowledge graphs, agentic workflows, or model-serving experience.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership without moving away from hands-on coding.

Why SA Technologies Inc.?
Empowering Work Environment: A Great Place to Work, especially celebrated as one of the Best Places for Women.
Excellence and Quality: A CMMI Level 5 Company, ensuring operational and service excellence.
Globally Acclaimed: A Microsoft Gold Partner and Google Partner, with over 20 years of global IT consulting and Development solutions delivery.
Have queries? We're here to assist you! Chat live with our recruiter or connect with the job owner directly:
Email:suraj.dinda@satechglobal.us
Embark on a rewarding journey together with us! At SA Technologies Inc., your journey begins with a friendly technical assessment, providing a stage to highlight your unique skills.

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