Founding Engineer

Blaugarnet Inc.; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity

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Lead engineering role in India

Job summary

Blaugarnet Inc. is seeking a Founding Engineer (6-8 years) to be the technical anchor of our India team. You will write the core product, shape architecture, and work directly with the founder in a high-ownership IC role with founding equity.

This hybrid Pune-based position emphasizes building an end-to-end AI system, setting engineering practices, and delivering production-grade software for enterprise clients.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of software engineering with strong backend expertise in a modern typed/async stack (Python/FastAPI).
• AI-native development mindset and daily use of coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar).
• 2-3+ years building AI/GenAI systems in production; experience with RAG and LLM orchestration.
• Proven IC ownership and startup temperament with direct communication.

Responsibilities

• Build the AI system end to end, including reasoning engine, context engineering, retrieval pipelines, and evaluation guardrails.
• Own technical direction for architecture, data patterns, and deployment posture.
• Scale products from demo to production grade, ensuring reliability and cost awareness.
• Be the architecture reviewer and standard-bearer, close to customers for feedback.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python/FastAPI

AI/GenAI systems

SQL/Postgres

Ownership

Startup temperament

Job description

Blaugarnet Inc. is building the Intent Layer for AI-driven software, ensuring that rapidly generated code aligns precisely with real business needs. The company focuses on transforming complex, ambiguous business intent into clear, machine-readable engineering blueprints. These blueprints are rigorously verified, authorized by humans, and anchored to a permanent record explaining every decision. By closing the gap between business intent and technical execution, Blaugarnet helps teams reduce errors, cover edge cases, and ship software that faithfully reflects what the business intended. This creates a more reliable, auditable foundation for AI-powered development in modern organizations.

Role Description

We are seeking a Founding Engineer (6-8 years experience) to be the technical anchor of our India engineering team - part builder, part architect. You'll write the core of the product, make the architectural calls the rest of the team builds on, and work directly with our founder, a veteran with 25 years of AI and product leadership at Google and Adobe. This is an individual-contributor role with founding equity: deep technical ownership without people-management responsibilities.

The Role & Responsibilities

• Core system: Build the AI system end to end - the reasoning and deliberation engine, context engineering, retrieval pipelines, and the evaluation frameworks and guardrails that make it reliable in production.
• Architecture: Own technical direction - frameworks, patterns, and infrastructure, including the system-of-record data architecture and enterprise deployment posture; set the engineering practices the future team inherits.
• Production: Take the product from demo-grade to production-grade - scalable, observable, cost-aware AI services that real enterprise customers depend on.
• Technical bar: Be the reviewer and standard-bearer for architecture, code quality, and reliability; stay close to customers and help decide what's worth building.

Requirements:

• 6-8 years of software engineering with deep backend expertise in a modern typed/async stack (we use Python/FastAPI today).
• AI-native development as your default mode - you work with coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) daily.
• 2-3+ years building AI/GenAI systems in production - RAG, deterministic LLM orchestration, and evaluation-harness design; strong SQL/Postgres.
• Proven zero-to-one ownership and technical leadership as an IC, with a startup temperament - high agency, bias to ship, direct communication.

Why Join Us

• Founding-level ownership and equity - you're a cornerstone of the company, with compensation to match.
• The most consequential engineering seat in India - you don't inherit a system, you define it.
• Real AI, real stakes - a live enterprise product in early access, built beside a founder who has built at the top.

Compensation & logistics

• Location: Pune, India - hybrid.