Join Fig AI as a founding engineer to build AI agents that automate revenue-generating actions and complex compliance workflows for the $750B food manufacturing sector. You will work directly with the founders to develop RAG systems, computer-use agents, and backend infra, transforming an industry currently reliant on fragmented software and manual processes.
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Founding Engineer at Fig AI
Fig AI is building AI agents to modernize the $750B food manufacturing industry, a sector still running on paper and emails. Backed by $1.8M from Innovation Endeavors and angels from OpenAI and Instacart, they are seeking a Founding Engineer to work directly with the co-founders on everything from RAG systems to computer-use agents. With a salary of up to $220k and meaningful equity, this is a rare opportunity to join a high-traction pre-seed team at the ground floor. If you're a pragmatic builder who wants to solve real-world problems and skip the architectural debates, Fig AI offers the autonomy and impact you've been looking for.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
$180k-$220k + Equity
Company
Fig AI
Role overview
Industrial Food Ingredients4–10+ employees
AI agents for the food manufacturer’s ecosystem, 750b industry that is still running on emails, fragmented software, and pen and paper.
We firmly believe that food manufacturing is one of the least understood and largest opportunities for agents. We expect AGI to be able to do 90%+ of knowledge work in the next 3 years. We are earning trust with executives of the top U.S. food manufacturing business by deeply understanding their food specific workflows and building agents that do revenue generating actions and direct cost saving activities. This includes, but isn’t limited to:
- Finding potential sales opportunities using web scraping and semantic analysis
- Building a RAG system to make the manufacturer’s catalogue instantly discoverable
- Automate end-to-end compliance workflows by auto-ingesting emails, finding relevant documents to fill, completing them using computer-use agents or otherwise
- …..a lot more!!!
We come with a combined 10+ years of experience in the food industry, combined with multiple successful tech startups. And we’re pumped to bring a real, meaningful change to the world by helping people who bring food to our table 🥦
We’ve raised initial funding of $1.8M from Innovation Endeavors + food industry + technology angels at Instacart, OpenAI, and others to build this vision.
What you will do
- Design and build backend systems to ingest and process hundreds of complex documents from customer ERPs and CRMs using semantic analysis.
- Develop sophisticated AI agents using computer-use capabilities to automate end-to-end compliance workflows and auto-complete 100-page industry documents.
- Collaborate on the full-stack architecture, from React/NextJS frontends to Kotlin/Spring Boot services, ensuring rapid iteration and high reliability for enterprise customers.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven builder with a history of shipping products used by real people, demonstrating a bias for action and the ability to iterate quickly.
- Pragmatic engineer comfortable across the stack (Kotlin, React, Postgres, GCP) who prioritizes getting the job done over debating perfect architectures.
- Self-directed owner who identifies gaps and fixes them without waiting for permission, ideally with interest or experience in AI/ML applications.
Why this role is remarkable
- True founding-level impact: You will be involved in every major technical and strategic decision, working alongside founders with deep industry expertise from Instacart and Bain.
- Elite backing: Supported by Innovation Endeavors (Eric Schmidt’s fund) and industry-leading angels from OpenAI and Instacart to modernize a massive, underserved global market.
- High-autonomy environment: Ship products that immediately solve real-world problems for top U.S. food manufacturers, utilizing a pragmatic tech stack and cutting-edge LLM tools.
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