Founding AI Engineer Engineering San Francisco, CA $180K – $220K • Offers Equity

Cooper AI Tech, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & equity

Wellness stipend

401k with match

Unlimited PTO

Lunch program

Job summary

Cooper AI Tech, Inc. in San Francisco, CA is seeking to hire the founding engineering team for a new hyper-growth AI business unit.

You’ll build AI agents and AI workflows that enable unique, tailored experiences for insurance use cases - so insurance professionals can move 10x faster and unlock major efficiency gains. This is a high-velocity, high-impact role that will revolutionize the $1T+ global insurance market.

Qualifications

• Experience as a full stack engineer building across the stack
• Hands‑on with modern AI stacks (LLMs, VLMs, ASR/TTS)
• Ability to map complex customer workflows and deploy end-to-end builds

Responsibilities

• Build AI agents and AI workflows for insurance use cases
• Map out complex customer workflows and deploy end-to-end builds
• Collaborate with product, design, and marketing to ship features

Skills

Full stack engineering

AI stacks

strong communication

ownership in ambiguous environments

Tools

LLMs

VLMs

ASR/TTS

vector stores

orchestration

Job description

Engineering San Francisco, CA Full-time $180K – $220K • Offers Equity

Who we are:

Cooper is an AI coworker for the insurance industry. Getting a business insured involves mountains of paperwork: filling out repetitive forms, re-typing the same information into one insurance company's website after another, and comparing offers by hand. Cooper does that busywork automatically, right inside the tools people already use, so brokers and their teams can focus on advising clients instead of pushing paper. We're a small team with deep insurance roots, teaching AI to do real, trusted work in a massive, overlooked industry.

Backed by Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor, Cooper AI is building from the ground up to modernize a $1T+ global insurance industry.

About the role

We're hiring the Founding Engineering team for a new hyper-growth AI business unit. You’ll build AI agents and AI workflows that enable unique, tailored experiences for insurance use cases - so insurance professionals can move 10x faster and unlock major efficiency gains. This is a high-velocity, high-impact role that will revolutionize the $1T+ global insurance market.

About you

Full stack engineering experience. You’ll be coding across the stack and are comfortable in different languages and platforms.

Hands‑on with modern AI stacks (LLMs, VLMs, ASR / TTS, vector stores, orchestration, evals). You’re pragmatic about trade‑offs across latency, cost, reliability and safety.

Thrive in challenging situations. You’ll map out complex customer workflows and deploy end to end custom builds.

Strong communication skills. You’ll partner with Product, GTM, Design and Marketing teams, as well as directly interface with end users.

High velocity and ownership in an ambiguous environment. We’re moving exceptionally fast in a space that hasn’t been innovated before.

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity
• Monthly wellness stipend
• 401k with company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Company sponsored lunch 5x per week
• Off sites, happy hours, and team building events