About the RoleThis is a founding-level engineering role at an agentic integration platform serving the real economy. The company's agents perform real work with real consequences inside production systems - think shift-based staffing, logistics, and flexible labor markets. You will own the agent layer end-to-end, working directly with the CTO as a peer from day one. This is a rare opportunity to build production-scale agentic systems at a moment when very few teams have shipped them.
What You'll Build- A context and self-learning system: A compounding knowledge base of undocumented integrations, so that connecting the 1,000th company is dramatically better than connecting the first.
- Self-healing workflows: Agents that autonomously detect, diagnose, and recover from production failures without human intervention.
- A meta-harness: The runtime harness that agents execute on, plus the tooling layer that enables the team to build, evaluate, and ship new agents in days.
What You'll Do- Own the full agent layer: context engineering, self-learning, evals, harness architecture, and meta-harness design.
- Set the patterns and standards for how every agent at the company is built, measured, and continuously improved.
- Experiment relentlessly alongside founders and help shape the technical direction of the product.
- Contribute to hiring and eventually grow into leading the team responsible for agentic systems.
What We're Looking ForRequired:- Hands-on experience building agentic software within the last year - this field moves fast and recency matters.
- Deep familiarity with harness-centric agent development: context engineering and eval-driven iteration.
- Strong understanding of agent tracing and evaluation frameworks.
- An implementation-first mindset - you ship working systems in production, not research prototypes.
- Comfort with the tech stack: TypeScript, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, and LLMs / agent frameworks.
Nice to Have:- Prior experience at a high-caliber engineering organization (e.g., large tech, top-tier consulting, or developer tooling).
- Background working on integration platforms, workflow automation, or marketplace infrastructure.
Compensation & Benefits- Salary: $150,000 - $300,000 USD annually, depending on experience.
- Founding engineer equity participation.
- Visa sponsorship is available.
LocationThis role is
on-site in San Francisco, CA. Remote work is not available for this position.
