As a Founding Engineer, you will build the AI agents replacing fragmented legacy systems in the massive food manufacturing sector. You'll move across the full stack—from engineering RAG systems for product catalogues to developing computer-use agents for complex compliance automation—directly impacting how food reaches tables across the US.
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San Francisco, United States$180k-$220k + Equity
Founding Engineer at Innovation Endeavors-backed AI agents startup
Food manufacturing is a $750B industry still running on pen and paper. This $1.8M pre-seed startup, backed by Innovation Endeavors (Eric Schmidt's fund) and angels from OpenAI and Instacart, is building the AI agents that will finally automate it. As a Founding Engineer, you'll work directly with a pedigree team of Stanford MBAs and industry veterans to build RAG systems and computer-use agents that handle everything from complex compliance to sales discovery. If you're a pragmatic builder who wants to trade architectural debates for high-impact shipping and meaningful founding equity, this San Francisco-based role is your chance to own a massive vertical from day zero.
Overview
Role overview
Company
Fig AI
Industrial Food Ingredients4–10+ employees
$1.8M pre-seed AI startup backed by Innovation Endeavors and OpenAI/Instacart angels transforming the $750B food manufacturing industry
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Design and deploy backend systems that ingest and process hundreds of PDFs from customer ERPs and CRMs using semantic analysis.
- Build and iterate on AI agents using Anthropic and Gemini to automate 100-page compliance documents and end-to-end sales workflows.
- Develop a performant, modern frontend and infrastructure using Kotlin, Spring Boot, React, and Terraform on GCP.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- A proven builder who has shipped real-world products and prioritizes pragmatism and speed over architectural purity.
- Highly autonomous engineer comfortable with "boring" proven tech like Kotlin and Postgres to solve complex, high-stakes industrial problems.
- San Francisco-based professional ready for a high-impact, hybrid role (3 days/week) with a strong bias toward shipping 80% solutions today.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Work directly with founders from Instacart, Bain, and Stanford who bring deep domain expertise from a 4th-generation food manufacturing family business.
- Massive market opportunity in a $750B industry still operating on pen and paper, with high-signal backing from Eric Schmidt's fund and industry leaders.
- True founding ownership with 0.5%–2% equity and the chance to shape every major technical and product decision from day zero.
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