What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Engineer position at SproutMe?
Company Description
SproutMe empowers marketing teams with state-of-the-art autonomous AI agents to implement sophisticated enterprise-grade strategies. By seamlessly integrating predictive planning and real-time optimization, the company maximizes ROI for lead generation businesses.
Role Description
You’ll work across product and infrastructure, owning problems end-to-end, from identifying customer insights to shipping production systems. As an early engineer, you’ll have significant ownership in shaping the product, architecture, and engineering culture. This role focuses on building autonomous marketing agents for media buying use cases.
If you're excited about LLMs, interpretability, agentic systems, and building from scratch, this role offers the chance to work at the frontier of how AI systems interact with real-world information.
What You’ll Do
- Build full-stack product features from concept to production
- Design agentic systems for marketing automation
- Build infrastructure for LLM testing, interpretability and experimentation
- Work closely with customers to translate insights into product capabilities
- Collaborate with leadership on product direction and technical architecture
- Help define best practices for AI-assisted and agentic development workflows
What You Bring
- 3 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack development skills
- Experience with React, GCP, and Terraform
- Comfort working across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
- Ability to own problems from idea to shipped product
- Curiosity about how large language models behave and how they can be studied or influenced
Nice to Have
- Experience building LLM-powered or agentic systems
- Experience with marketing
- Background in machine learning, NLP, or AI tooling
- Startup experience or self-driven technical projects
- Experience speaking directly with customers to inform product development
Why This Role Is Interesting
- Work on new technical challenges around interacting with AI systems
- Help shape the early engineering culture at a fast-moving startup
- Build systems at the intersection of AI research and real-world applications
- Significant ownership over product direction and technical architecture
Application Question(s):
- Will you now, or in the future, require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H-1B visa status)
- What is your expected pay range for next position?
Education:
- Master's (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (Preferred)
Work Location: In person