Founding Full Stack – LLM, AI (no prior AI experience required)
Job Description
Join Our Journey as a Founding Engineer (YC-Backed Startup)
We are an ambitious, YC-backed early-stage startup on a mission to [Optional: Briefly mention your industry/problem if appropriate, otherwise keep general as original]. We are actively seeking a highly skilled and passionate Founding Engineer to join our core team and play a pivotal role in shaping our technology, product, and culture from the ground up.
You’ll be joining a team of experienced, hard-working, and humble individuals who thrive on tackling challenging problems. Our members have previously contributed to scaling large-scale systems at both major tech companies and successful startups, impacting hundreds of millions of users. We foster a collaborative and supportive environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming candidates from all backgrounds and experiences.
What We’re Looking For
As a Founding Engineer, your impact will be immense, requiring not just technical skill but also specific foundational traits crucial for navigating the early startup phase. While specific tech stacks can be learned, we require you to possess the following fundamental and non-negotiable characteristics:
A Relentless Drive for Quality: You have a deep commitment to shipping well-crafted, reliable, and maintainable code that forms the essential foundation of our product. You take pride in your work and its impact.
An Insatiable Hunger to Learn: You possess genuine curiosity and actively seek out new knowledge, technologies, and best practices. You have a strong growth mindset and constantly push yourself to improve.
A Truly Collaborative Spirit: You are a positive, humble, and supportive team player who enjoys working closely with others. You contribute actively to building a great team environment where everyone feels valued.
Bonus Points (but not required): Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) or related AI/ML areas would be a valuable asset, though it is absolutely not a prerequisite. We value strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to quickly master new domains above specific prior domain knowledge.
If you are a highly motivated engineer who is excited by the prospect of building a company from the ground up alongside an experienced team, and you strongly identify with the traits listed above, we encourage you to apply! We look forward to hearing from you.
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