Remote Founding Engineer (Fullstack/AI)

Description:

• The company is seeking a senior, product-minded engineer to join a small product squad consisting of 2 fullstack engineers and a PM.
• The role involves owning features end-to-end, which includes designing, building, shipping, and iterating on backend services, web front-end, and internal tooling.
• The engineer will be responsible for scaling the generative AI stack by productionizing retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, implementing evaluation harnesses, and hardening monitoring and alerting systems.
• The position requires shaping the engineering culture by introducing best-in-class CI/CD, code quality standards, security practices, and mentoring.
• Collaboration with product and sales teams is essential to translate real patient pain points into elegant solutions.
• The engineer will influence the product roadmap by participating in product discovery, weighing technical trade-offs, and maintaining focus on impactful initiatives.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience building and operating production software is required.
• U.S. work authorization and residency are mandatory.
• Proven experience in shipping large language model (LLM) or conversational AI products at scale, including LLM-APIs, vector stores, and agent frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python and modern JavaScript is essential, along with familiarity with SQL and schema design.
• Comfort with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and infrastructure as code (IaC) is necessary.
• A working knowledge of agents, vector search, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation performance tuning is required.
• The candidate should have a good sense of product taste, particularly in user experience details.
• Strong communication skills are needed to explain complex trade-offs to non-engineers.

Benefits:

• The position offers a 401k match to support retirement savings.
• The company promotes a remote-first culture, applicable to U.S. residents only.
• There is an opportunity for the engineer to shape the technical and cultural foundation of the company.