Founding AI Engineer: Build Production-Ready Agents

Oxbow Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meals provided in office

Competitive equity

In-office SF workspace

Job summary

Oxbow Talent is seeking a founding engineer to build and improve AI agents that power the core product. You will work across agent architecture, backend infrastructure, and product features, reporting directly to the CTO and collaborating daily with the founders.

As the team grows from four to six, you will own meaningful parts of the product from week one, shaping the roadmap and delivering end-to-end solutions that customers rely on.

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of commercial experience in full-stack software engineering, with production systems that served real customers at scale.
• Solid working knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt engineering and AI agent patterns.
• Python as a primary working language.
• Clear communication and the ability to prioritise and make decisions in a fast-moving environment.
• Willingness to commit fully to an early-stage team, including the pace and ambiguity that comes with it.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve AI agents that investigate and resolve IT support tickets across customer environments, handling complex multi-step workflows with policy controls and reliable recovery when things go sideways
• Scale the backend infrastructure and distributed systems that the agents run on, keeping reliability high as the customer base grows
• Ship product features across the full stack, including frontend, backend and third-party integrations, driven directly by customer feedback
• Work closely with the founders and the rest of the team daily, contributing to roadmap decisions as well as execution

Skills

Python

LLM APIs

Prompt engineering

AI agent patterns

Full-stack engineering

Job description

Oxbow Talent is seeking a founding engineer to build and improve AI agents that power the core product. You will work across agent architecture, backend infrastructure, and product features, reporting directly to the CTO and collaborating daily with the founders.

As the team grows from four to six, you will own meaningful parts of the product from week one, shaping the roadmap and delivering end-to-end solutions that customers rely on.