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Retell AIRetell AIRedwood City, CA

Software Engineer, Founders Initiatives

Build production-grade AI workflows, agent systems, automations, and integrations spanning recruiting, security, finance, customer onboarding, and go-to-market operations. The role suits exceptional new graduates or engineers with up to one year of experience, strong software fundamentals, and hands-on AI project experience.

160k – 270k/yr
On-siteEntry levelFullstack Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

HR & Recruiting AI Systems

  • Build systems that extract structured signals from resumes, including skills, experience, founder traits, and domain expertise.
  • Develop lead-scoring models to predict interview success and role fit.
  • Design AI recruiter workflows for candidate screening and qualification.
  • Automate personalized outbound email and candidate-engagement workflows.

Security & Compliance Automation

  • Build automation systems for customer security workflows, including BAAs, DPAs, DocuSign, and contract-review flows.
  • Automate security-questionnaire and compliance-response generation.
  • Improve internal tooling for enterprise readiness and audit processes.

Operational Infrastructure Tools

  • Build accounts-receivable automation and finance-related email workflows.
  • Create automated enterprise customer onboarding and account-setup tools.
  • Design internal systems that reduce manual operational overhead across teams.

Third-Party Integrations & Platform Work

  • Integrate with CRM systems such as Salesforce, HubSpot, and GoHighLevel.
  • Build workflow automation using Zapier, n8n, and Make.
  • Design LLM-powered systems using OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, and other models.
  • Own API-based integrations connecting internal systems across the company.

GTM Engineering & Growth Automation

  • Build HubSpot and Lark automations to improve sales and marketing efficiency.
  • Develop lifecycle automation systems for customer engagement and retention.
  • Create targeted website personalization and ad-content generation systems.
  • Build email-personalization and outbound-automation pipelines at scale.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
  • New graduate or up to 1 year of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong internships, research, startup work, or meaningful side projects demonstrating exceptional engineering ability.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals in backend, full-stack, or systems development.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs, AI agents, or modern AI tooling through internships, research, or personal projects.
  • Founder mindset, strong ownership, and ability to work across product, engineering, and operations.
  • Ability to move quickly, learn fast, and thrive in ambiguous environments.
  • Preference for building end-to-end systems over narrowly defined tasks.
  • Focus on solving customer problems and shipping impactful products.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Cash compensation: $160,000–$270,000.
  • Meaningful equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully covered.
  • $70/day DoorDash credit for meals and snacks.
  • $200/month wellness reimbursement.
  • $300/month commuter reimbursement.
  • $75/month phone-bill reimbursement.
  • $50/month internet reimbursement.
  • Three cash-equity balance options with best-offer-upfront compensation.
  • Work authorization sponsorship may be available for qualified candidates, including H-1B, TN, L-1, E-3, F-1 (OPT/CPT), and O-1 visas.

Skills

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptLLMsAI AgentsOpenAIgeminiClaudeSalesforceHubSpotgohighlevelZapiern8nmakeAPI Integrations

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