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Software Engineer

Elsdon Group
San Francisco, CA Other
POSTED ON 4/15/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/15/2026

🤖 The "Wrapper" Era is over. The "Agentic" Era is here.

Most AI companies are just building chatbots. We are building Autonomous Employees.

We’re a high-density, post-Series A team of ex-Founders and Tier-1 AI researchers (ex-OpenAI, Google) who are sick of "chat" interfaces. We are building the orchestration layer that allows AI to reason, use tools, and execute 100-step workflows without human hand-holding.

We need two "Founding-level" engineers to help us scale the brain and the body of our agents.


🛠 The Engineering Challenges

  • Staff Software Engineer: You’ll own the Agentic Loops. We’re solving for multi-step reasoning, long-term memory persistence, and self-correction. If you know why a standard RAG pipeline fails in a complex agentic flow, we want to talk to you.


  • Full-Stack Engineer: You’re building the Observability & Control. This isn't just a dashboard; it’s a real-time "cockpit" for autonomous systems. High-concurrency, streaming UIs, and complex state management are the baseline here.


âš¡ The "Talent Density" Bar

  • No Juniors. You’ll be working exclusively with peers who have shipped products to millions.
  • The "Agent" Obsession: You understand ReAct patterns, tool-use protocols, and the latency trade-offs of different model architectures.
  • Startup DNA: You’d rather ship a core feature today than attend a planning meeting tomorrow.


💰 The Package

  • Founding Equity: We are offering the kind of stake that changes lives upon an exit.
  • Compute Sovereignty: Dedicated H100/B200 clusters. No "waiting for tokens."
  • The 'Founding' Window: The architecture isn't set in stone. You won't be maintaining a system; you'll be the one who wrote the documentation everyone else has to follow.

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