Founding Engineer

Description

Our agents capture how a client works, map its workflows, and deliver production software built for that client. The end state is a custom, AI-native software stack for every company.\ \ Enterprise software has a delivery problem. Every customer works differently, so fitting their workflows to a SaaS product takes months of forward-deployed engineers, consultants and integrators. Custom builds from consultancies cost millions and rarely get past the proof of concept.

Coding agents change the economics. When code is nearly free, the expensive part is understanding how the client works. Palantir built Foundry, then needed an army of engineers to deploy it. We start from the other end: automate the forward-deployed engineer, and let agents build custom software for each client, instead of one bloated product plus years of customisation.

As founding engineer, you build the software factory: the capture layer, the workflow models, and the agents that turn them into shipped software

What you'll work on

Capture: high-throughput, high-concurrency systems that collect events across client desktops and systems. Privacy: redaction and anonymisation built into the pipeline core. Structure: ingestion and retrieval across messy documents and sources, and knowledge graphs that model how work actually happens. Build: coding agents that generate, test and deploy custom software from those models. Deploy: plugging that software into client systems and running it in production.

Who we're looking for

This is not a normal job, and we will not pretend it is.

You want to build the future of software production. You have a product mindset and can deliver end to end: from client discovery to production code. Serious intensity. This is 996. A friend! We will spend countless hours building a huge company, so cultural fit is essential.

How we operate

We train hard, sleep properly and treat our bodies as part of the job. You will be expected to live and perform like a professional athlete. 996 is a marathon. We say what we think.

Benefits

• Founding-level ownership and meaningful equity.
• Full immersion. You live with us in SF while we build a trillion-dollar company that changes how software is built and delivered.
• Unlimited token spend on coding agents. Use them for everything.
• Direct say in product direction from day one.
• Your first 30 days
• You will run the factory end to end on a live client, then make it faster.
• Install our desktop agent on a client team's machines and map their workflows from what it records.
• Build and ship the automation with our coding agents.
• Turn what you did by hand into agent work for the next client.
• Stack
• TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, PostgreSQL, Next.js, Azure.
• Founders
• Javier (CTO): two-time founder. ML engineer at Encord. Ironman triathlete.
• Samuel (CEO): McKinsey & Company (QuantumBlack). Satellite engineer. Platoon commander in the Singapore Armed Forces.
• If you want to change the world of software forever, we want to talk.
• Skills: Microsoft Azure, Rust, TypeScript, Windows, Next.js, LLMs, AI Agents
• Experience: 2+ years
• Visa: US citizen/visa only