This Founding Engineer role involves building autonomous AI agents to revolutionize industrial distribution. You'll work directly with founders to create systems that automate sales and supply chain operations for large customers, processing orders, generating quotes, and making inventory decisions without human intervention. This is a high-impact opportunity to ship software that runs real businesses.
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Founding Engineer at fast-growing AI startup
Are you ready to build truly autonomous AI agents that redefine industrial distribution? This Founding Engineer role offers the chance to automate multi-billion dollar operations, working directly with founders to ship systems that process orders, generate quotes, and manage inventory without human intervention. If you're a systems-minded engineer with deep LLM expertise, eager to make a monumental impact in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment, this is your opportunity to shape the future of industrial commerce.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Confidential company
Role overview
About the company
fast-growing AI startup
What you will do
- Build and ship autonomous AI agents that process orders, generate quotes, and make inventory decisions without human intervention.
- Integrate with messy enterprise systems including ERPs, CRMs, inboxes, and phone systems used by distributors.
- Write high-performance backend services to handle inventory optimization algorithms, complex pricing logic, and more.
Who this is a fit for
- A systems-minded engineer passionate about building software that runs real businesses.
- Experience with Next.js, TS, Python (FastAPI), and PostgreSQL, our core stack.
- Deep familiarity with LLM usage, productizing, research, agents, tool calling, and robustness.
Why this role is remarkable
- Build truly autonomous AI agents that automate multi-billion dollar industrial operations, moving beyond human-in-the-loop copilots.
- Join a well-funded startup, backed by top-tier VCs, targeting a massive and underserved industrial market.
- Experience significant ownership and direct impact, working closely with founders in a high-velocity, no-red-tape environment.
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