Founding Engineer
Core
Build end-to-end systems for a consumer AI-powered map and social discovery platform, handling search, ranking, real-time infrastructure, and AI agent pipelines.
Role type
Founding Engineer (Full-Stack / Data & AI)
Builds
AI-powered map and social discovery platform with real-time features and personalized recommendations
Domain
Consumer tech, AI, search, and real-time systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
search and ranking algorithms, real-time system design, data pipeline construction, infrastructure optimization, full-stack development, AI/ML workflows
Preferred skills
experience with early-stage startups, operating in ambiguity, end-to-end feature ownership
Technologies
TypeScript, React, React Native, iOS, Android, Python, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, LLMs, embeddings, vector search
Responsibilities
Design and build search and ranking systems at massive scale; develop real-time infrastructure for chat, presence, and location; construct AI agent pipelines for planning and reasoning; optimize data pipelines for unstructured web data; push vector search latency to sub-100ms; build fast mobile and web interfaces
Seniority
Founding team member, high ownership
