Founding AI Engineer — 0→1 with Real-Time Guardrails

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunity

Leadership growth potential

Job summary

Premier Global Links LLC seeks a Founding Software Engineer to help build AI safety products enabling AI agents to operate within legal and regulatory requirements. This hands-on, high-ownership role focuses on real-time guardrails, AI/LLM infrastructures, and production software from research to customer-facing solutions.

You will join a small team to design scalable systems, translate research into reliable software, and own critical components in a fast-moving startup environment in San

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building or deploying AI, LLM, or machine learning products.
• Experience building core software infrastructure and customer-facing features.
• Demonstrated ability to take products or major features from 0 to 1.
• Strong software engineering and computer science fundamentals.
• Comfortable working independently in ambiguous, research-heavy environments.
• High ownership, initiative, and ability to adapt to changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Build legal evaluation systems and testing environments for AI agents.
• Develop and productionize real-time guardrails for AI and LLM applications.
• Build core infrastructure for AI safety and evaluation workflows.
• Develop AI/LLM products and customer-facing features from 0 to 1.
• Ship solutions to design partners and iterate based on real-world requirements.
• Design scalable software architecture and engineering systems.
• Work with evaluation harnesses, RL environments, training pipelines, or related AI infrastructure.
• Translate research concepts into reliable production software.
• Contribute to technical strategy, architecture, and engineering practices.
• Take ownership of challenging problems in a fast-moving, research-oriented environment.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/LLM products

Core infrastructure

0 to 1

CS fundamentals

Independent work

Ownership

On-site SF

Job description

Premier Global Links LLC seeks a Founding Software Engineer to help build AI safety products enabling AI agents to operate within legal and regulatory requirements. This hands-on, high-ownership role focuses on real-time guardrails, AI/LLM infrastructures, and production software from research to customer-facing solutions.

You will join a small team to design scalable systems, translate research into reliable software, and own critical components in a fast-moving startup environment in San