Member of Technical Staff

a16z speedrun

$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Exceptional technical ability with a proven track record of building innovative solutions
  • Experience with modern AI tooling, including large language models and agent development
  • Strong capabilities in systems engineering and real-world application
  • Ability to independently identify and tackle complex problems
  • Desire for significant influence in a startup with established revenue and customer base

Responsibilities

  • Own critical tasks based on immediate priorities, such as agent workflows and product development
  • Build infrastructure for data scraping and processing across multiple countries
  • Rapidly prototype solutions and validate them with actual users
  • Transform successful prototypes into scalable production systems
  • Shape your own career path based on performance and contributions

Benefits

  • Competitive salary plus early-stage equity based on contributions
  • Comprehensive health benefits including dental and vision
  • Opportunity for significant impact in a small team with access to founders and customers
Full Job Description
Member of Technical Staff

San Francisco, CA • Full-time • In-person

Former founder? Research engineer? Generalist who's been the secret weapon on every team you've joined? This is the role. Member of Technical Staff means one thing at Sourcerer: you can take an impossibly ambiguous problem - "underwrite any supplier in China," "make an agent negotiate a purchase order" - and come back with a working system.

You'll work across everything: agents, data infrastructure, product, and whatever the mission demands this month. The ceiling on this role is wherever you take it.

What you'll own
  • Whatever matters most right now - agent workflows, search and scraping infrastructure across a dozen-plus countries, underwriting models, customer-facing product
  • The full loop - prototype fast, prove it with real customers, then harden it into production
  • Your own trajectory - MTS here has grown into engineering leadership, AI leadership, and staff-level IC paths. The role becomes what your work earns.

Who we're looking for
  • Exceptional technical ability - we care about what you've built, not how many years you've existed
  • Serious experience with modern AI tooling (LLMs, agents, evals) and/or hard systems engineering
  • Maximum agency: you find the problem, you solve the problem, you tell us about it after
  • You want the earliest seat possible at a company that already has real revenue and real enterprise customers

What you get
  • Competitive salary + early-stage equity calibrated to what you bring
  • Full benefits (health, dental, vision)
  • The most leverage-per-person you will find anywhere: small team, huge market, direct line to founders and customers

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