Founding Engineer Intern – AI Startup

About the role

A fast‑growing pre‑seed AI startup in the talent and recruiting space is looking for a Founding Engineer Intern to join its founding team in San Francisco. You will work directly with the CTO to ship features daily and help build a fully agentic system that automates headhunting end‑to‑end, with occasional hacker‑house periods in Latin America.

Key responsibilities

• Build and ship features daily alongside the CTO to automate the recruiting process end‑to‑end.
• Own full end‑to‑end development—from ideation to production—for core product features.
• Collaborate with the founding team to design and ship components of an agentic AI system.
• Talk to users and measure impact on hiring speed to drive rapid iteration.
• Thrive in a founder‑paced, high‑output environment with daily feedback loops.

Required profile

• At least 6 months of experience with React and TypeScript in a production environment.
• Hands‑on experience with Cursor, Supabase, Prisma, and Typesense in a production React/TypeScript stack.
• Full‑stack focus—not an ML engineer and not overly specialized in a single language.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive features from ideation to production independently.
• Currently enrolled in or pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Outstanding academic or project record (top GPA, strong university, impressive projects, or active GitHub).
• Experience working in entrepreneurial, fast‑paced, scrappy environments.
• Willingness to work 7 days/week and participate in hacker‑house setups in Latin America.

Required skills

• React
• TypeScript
• Cursor
• Supabase
• Prisma
• Typesense