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Founding Engineer, AI Platform

Career Renew
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 8/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/21/2026
 Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Founding Engineer, AI Platform - this is a hybrid position in San Francisco. Salary range: 180-250K plus benefits plus equity.
 
We are building Enterprise Intelligence: an AI-native workspace that turns a company's meetings, email, documents, Slack, and operational systems into durable memory, proactive agents, and customer-specific workflows.
 

We are looking for a Founding Engineer with 3–7 years of experience to join our founding team and help build their Enterprise Intelligence platform from the ground up. You are an entrepreneurial, product-minded full-stack engineer who has lived the 0-to-1 journey before—whether as a founder, founding engineer, or early technical hire. You thrive in ambiguity, talk directly with customers, and ship production-quality AI-powered products quickly. This is a true 0-to-1 role where you'll work across product, infrastructure, agents, evals, and customer workflows, turning early customer pull into a durable platform.

What will you be doing?

  • Lead the core platform development for agents, including triggers, tools, approvals, evals, memory, observability, and workflow execution

  • End to end product ownership—from customer discovery and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration

  • Work across the full stack to build core Enterprise Intelligence surfaces

  • Shape the product roadmap, technical architecture, engineering practices, and culture of the company

 
Requirements:
 
Seniority

3 -​ 7 years of experience in full-​stack engineering,​ AI-​native

 
Work experience

0-​to-​1 experience as a founder or founding/early engineer at a startup

ML background:​ shipped AI-​powered product features in production

Worked on products at an AI lab / open-​source environment (Nice-to-have)

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree (Nice-to-have)

Hard skills

Full-​stack proficiency

AI-​native;​ experience with LLM APIs,​ RAG,​ agent orchestration,​ or evals (Nice-to-have)

Soft skills

Immersed in the AI development ecosystem;​ opinionated/passionate about future of coding with AI

Comfortable speaking directly with customers for discovery and debugging (Nice-to-have)

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