Founding AI Engineer — Enterprise Procurement Workflows

TradeForm; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

TradeForm is building the first proactive AI workforce for direct procurement. As Founding Engineer, you will build the systems that let enterprise teams trust an agent with high-stakes procurement work.

You will structure millions of procurement records, own integrations with enterprise systems, ship workflows customers use daily, and help determine the product roadmap. You will own features end-to-end, design scalable backend architectures, and build secure, auditable agent workflows that

Qualifications

• Fluency in Python, TypeScript, Java, or C++ and modern backend frameworks.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and ownership mindset.
• Ability to design scalable backend systems, databases and distributed architectures.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship across frontend, backend, data infra, and deployment stack.
• Own features from initial customer conversation through deployment and iteration.
• Develop reliable agent workflows, evaluations, and AI/ML pipelines.
• Design data schemas for procurement, manufacturing, and ERP data.
• Build guardrails to make agent actions safe and auditable.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Java

C++

Tools

Next.js

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Job description

TradeForm is building the first proactive AI workforce for direct procurement. As Founding Engineer, you will build the systems that let enterprise teams trust an agent with high-stakes procurement work.

You will structure millions of procurement records, own integrations with enterprise systems, ship workflows customers use daily, and help determine the product roadmap. You will own features end-to-end, design scalable backend architectures, and build secure, auditable agent workflows that