Founding Engineer – Relocate to San Francisco

About the role

This is a founding engineering role at an early‑stage AI infrastructure startup building the operating layer for AI‑native service businesses. You will join as a founding team member, shaping the platform from scratch with no legacy code and no pre‑written roadmap, carrying real ownership and accountability from day one.

Key responsibilities

• Build the full platform end‑to‑end, making architectural and product decisions yourself.
• Talk directly to users, define the right outcomes, and ship to production without waiting on a ticket.
• Iterate rapidly on agentic AI systems, tooling, and core infrastructure in a very small, high‑trust team.
• Own what breaks, diagnose and fix it, then raise the bar so it does not break the same way again.

Required profile

• A proven builder who has shipped something real to real users and can speak honestly about what broke and how it was fixed.
• A product‑engineer mindset: you define the outcome, not just the implementation.
• AI‑native: you use AI tooling to write and ship code at a pace that would have seemed unreasonable a few years ago.
• Intensity and drive, ideally with experience founding something or joining a startup at an early stage.
• Firm commitment to relocating to San Francisco by January 2027 – a non‑negotiable requirement.

What we offer

• Competitive salary while based in Europe, switching to a San Francisco‑equivalent salary on the day you arrive.
• Meaningful early equity.
• Visa sponsorship fully covered, as is the cost of relocation.