Founding AI Engineer Agentic AI & Automation

Acttrident

United States

Remote

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

26 hours ago
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Job summary

Acttrident seeks a founding engineer to build AI operating systems, automation for engineering and HR, and multi-agent orchestration. You will implement tool calling, agent frameworks and secure production deployments.

You will own systems from architecture to production, collaborate with leadership, and contribute to an equity stake in the company.

Qualifications

  • Experience building AI operating systems and orchestration architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Own real systems from architecture through production.
  • Collaborate directly with leadership on technical direction.
  • Deliver reliable, secure, and observable AI-powered workflows.

Skills

AI OS
Agent orchestration
Tool calling
Python
TypeScript
FastAPI
Node.js
API development
Cloud infrastructure
CI/CD
Observability
Security engineering

Tools

Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
ECC
MCP
n8n
Supabase
PostgreSQL
Docker
GitHub
CI/CD
Cloud infra

Job description

We are seeking an exceptional founding engineer who can develop AI operating systems, engineering automation, HR automation, multi-agent orchestration and secure intelligent workflows.

Essential capabilities include:

  • Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Everything Claude Code (ECC).
  • MCP, agent orchestration, tool calling and AI agent frameworks.
  • Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Node.js and API development.
  • Supabase, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.
  • n8n, workflow automation, RAG, memory, evaluations and observability.
  • Secure engineering, permissions, approval controls and reliable production deployments.

We particularly welcome hackathon winners and finalists, open-source contributors, TryHackMe and Hack The Box participants, CTF competitors, independent builders and engineers with substantial GitHub portfolios.

Highlight the opportunity to own real systems from architecture through production, collaborate directly with leadership, and receive a meaningful equity stake.

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