Founding Engineer
Core
Building AI-native services that deliver completed business outcomes for hourly workforce management, using AI agents plus a human review layer.
Role type
Founding Engineer (AI-Native Services)
Builds
Production AI agents, agentic workflows, integrations, evaluation harnesses, and human-review tooling.
Domain
HR/Payroll/Hiring platform for hourly workforce (SaaS)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
AI agent development, agentic workflow orchestration, tool use, data connections, deterministic logic, state management, permissions, production incident handling, evaluation harness design, human-in-the-loop system design, customer discovery, technical communication
Preferred skills
Experience in regulated domains (payroll, payments, tax, benefits, labor compliance)
Technologies
AI agents, orchestration frameworks, APIs, observability tools, evaluation datasets
Responsibilities
Build and operate production agents and agentic workflows; work forward-deployed with design customers to map workflows and build against live data; build evaluation harnesses and human-review layers; run shadow-mode parallel runs; productize customer-specific work into reusable agents; handle production incidents end-to-end; help set the technical bar as the team grows
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC
