Founding Engineer: AI Infra, CTO-Track, Remote EU

Jobgether SRL

Schweiz

Remote

CHF 75,000 - 131,000

Full time

18 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

US visa sponsorship
Relocation support
Remote work within Europe
Founding-level ownership
CTO growth path

Job summary

Jobgether SRL in Switzerland seeks a founding engineer to transform an AI agent product into scalable infrastructure, shaping the architecture and engineering culture. You will own backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI/agent systems, working with the founder to drive product and organizational decisions.

This paid, founding-level role offers Europe-wide remote work flexibility, visa sponsorship, relocation support to San Francisco within the first year, and the potential to grow into

Qualifications

  • At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience, or an equivalent track record of building and shipping real-world systems as a founder, solo builder, or early technical lead.
  • Hands-on experience building and operating LLM-powered or AI agent systems in production, particularly systems used by real customers.
  • Strong full-stack capabilities spanning backend engineering, infrastructure, frontend development, and AI/agent systems.
  • Ability to make independent technical decisions and choose pragmatic solutions in an early-stage environment.
  • Experience taking a functional prototype toward production scale through architectural improvements, data modeling, runtime design, orchestration, and reliability work.
  • Strong track record of shipping frequently, iterating based on user feedback, and delivering meaningful improvements under tight timelines.

Responsibilities

  • Transform an existing AI agent product into scalable, reliable infrastructure capable of supporting substantial user growth.
  • Design, build, and operate the core agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, verification, and multi-agent workflows.
  • Develop across the full technology stack, including backend services, infrastructure, frontend applications, and AI agent systems.
  • Take technical initiatives from initial design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Establish the foundational technical architecture, engineering standards, development practices, and tooling for the engineering organization.
  • Work directly with the founder to define technical priorities and make high-impact product and architecture decisions.
  • Ship product and infrastructure improvements frequently, using feedback from real customers to guide iteration.
  • Build systems that are reliable, maintainable, observable, and capable of evolving as the product and customer base grow.
  • Help establish the technical foundation and engineering culture that will support future team expansion.
  • Take increasing ownership of technical strategy and organizational direction, with the potential to grow into CTO-level responsibility.

Job description

Jobgether SRL in Switzerland seeks a founding engineer to transform an AI agent product into scalable infrastructure, shaping the architecture and engineering culture. You will own backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI/agent systems, working with the founder to drive product and organizational decisions.

This paid, founding-level role offers Europe-wide remote work flexibility, visa sponsorship, relocation support to San Francisco within the first year, and the potential to grow into

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