What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer position at Generative?
Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer | AI Startup | 4–7% equity
New York or San Francisco · In person
I’m hiring the first infrastructure engineer for a venture-backed AI startup: someone who wants to set the architecture, build the core systems and help shape the engineering team.
The founder is ex-Google and ex-Spotify, and previously co-founded a YC-backed startup.
Funding is secured and the first customer agreements are signed.
The team is building AI agents to run operations across real-world commerce. The technical challenge is making agents share context, coordinate across departments and reliably complete business workflows.
You’ll own the infrastructure that makes that possible.
You’ll:
- Design and build the core backend and distributed systems.
- Build the shared context and coordination layer connecting business data, workflows and agents.
- Make early architecture decisions across execution, integrations, reliability and compute.
- Work directly with the founder and founding team to bring customer workflows into production.
- Set engineering standards, with scope to recruit and lead the infrastructure team.
I’m looking for strong hands-on backend or distributed systems experience, clear ownership of production systems and the judgment to build from an ambiguous brief.
Competitive compensation, with 4–7% equity being discussed depending on the overall package.
If you want founding-level ownership over the technology and a meaningful stake in the company, message me here or email sam.hesketh@generativegroup.ai.
Salary : $150,000 - $200,000