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Founding Engineer

200k – 200kSan Francisco, CAML EngineeringOnsiteEntry level
Summary

Founding Engineer builds knowledge engines, multimodal agents, voice AI, and codegen systems for complex physical product support. Owns end-to-end customer deployments in fast-paced startup environment.

About the role

What You'll Work On

Knowledge Engine

  • Build the core engine that stores, relates, and reasons over product knowledge: manuals, compatibility matrices, installation guides, field observations, tribal knowledge.
  • Deep infrastructure that the rest of the company builds on top of.

Emotionally Intelligent Voice AI

  • Build phone support where a customer calls in, describes their problem, and gets walked through a solution by an AI that understands tone, frustration, urgency, expression.
  • SIP trunking, telephony infrastructure, audio processing.

Code Generation as a Primitive

  • When something is too cognitively hard to explain in words, generate real-time diagrams, interactive schematics, visual walkthroughs through code.
  • Leverage code generation tools and understanding of how people process information.

Owning Customers

  • Own customer contracts end-to-end: demo to deployment to onboarding to ongoing.
  • Talk to public companies, huge private companies, and lead pilots yourself.
Skills
Knowledge GraphsMultimodal AIVoice AISIP TrunkingTelephonyAudio ProcessingCode GenerationLLMsGraph TheoryAI Agents
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