You will join a world-class team of AI and infrastructure engineers to define the interface for human-agent collaboration. As the founding product hire, you will invent new design paradigms that allow humans to supervise agent workforces at scale, moving beyond simple chat windows to complex, high-signal feedback loops for mission-critical tasks.
Founding Product Engineer at YC-backed AI agent startup
Join a YC-backed startup as their Founding Product Engineer to design the world's first interface for supervising autonomous computer-use agents. Backed by angels from OpenAI and Hugging Face, you'll own the entire UX for a platform already processing thousands of mission-critical healthcare tasks daily. If you have incredible taste and want to define how humans interact with AGI-powered workforces, this greenfield role in San Francisco is your chance to shape the future of the global economy.
Overview
Role overview
Company
Asteroid
YC-backed AI agent startup pioneering computer-use automation in healthcare
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Design and build the end-to-end platform UX and a unified design system from scratch using TypeScript and React.
- Lead user research and onboarding by conducting interviews and analyzing sessions to relentlessly improve the product experience.
- Own full-stack feature development and maintain a world-class landing page presence to drive product growth and adoption.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- 3+ years of experience shipping B2B products used by thousands of active users with a focus on high-quality frontend execution.
- Exceptional product taste and the ability to translate complex exception-heavy workflows into simple, intuitive interaction patterns.
- Strong full-stack engineering capabilities and an AI-native mindset, comfortable working in a fast-paced San Francisco-based founding team.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Backed by Y Combinator (W25), Entrepreneur First, and top angels from OpenAI, Hugging Face, and exited YC founders.
- Complete greenfield ownership over the entire product experience and design system for a platform processing thousands of daily mission-critical executions.
- Join a founding team led by a CEO with space agency algorithm experience and a CTO who has built LLM systems since GPT-2.
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