Founding AI Engineer - On-Site Seattle Equity

Actual AI; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Large founding-engineer equity

Relocation assistance

Brand-new hardware

Full benefits

Unlimited AI-tooling budget

Job summary

Actual AI is hiring founding engineers to build AI-powered software tooling for modern engineering teams. You will design an Integration SDK and production-grade adapters for GitHub Enterprise, GitLab CE, Jira, Slack and more.

Expect work on Kubernetes, cloud SaaS, and air-gapped on-prem deployments. You should have 4+ years building backend APIs or event pipelines in TS/Go/Rust/Python, plus comfort with OAuth2, webhooks, and rate limiting.

Qualifications

• Shipped a GitHub or Jira integration in production.
• 4+ years building backend APIs or event pipelines in TS/Go/Rust/Python.
• Experience with OAuth2, webhooks, and PATs.
• Can containerize services and debug in Kubernetes.
• Focus on observability, reliability, and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Be an AI-first engineer building AI systems that build the systems.
• Design and own an Integration SDK to speed up connectors.
• Build adapters for GitHub Enterprise, GitLab CE, Jira, Slack.
• Shape event streams and data models for real-time reasoning.
• Operate services on Kubernetes in cloud and air-gapped on-prem installs.
• Collaborate with founders and customers; ship to production quickly.
• Dogfood the engineering manager agent and contribute to its design.

Skills

Backend APIs

Event pipelines

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Python

OAuth2

PATs

Webhooks

Rate limiting

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability

Reliability

DX (developer experience)

GitHub integration

Jira integration

GitHub Enterprise

GitLab CE

Slack integrations

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

GitLab CE

Jira

Slack

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Actual AI is hiring founding engineers to build AI-powered software tooling for modern engineering teams. You will design an Integration SDK and production-grade adapters for GitHub Enterprise, GitLab CE, Jira, Slack and more.

Expect work on Kubernetes, cloud SaaS, and air-gapped on-prem deployments. You should have 4+ years building backend APIs or event pipelines in TS/Go/Rust/Python, plus comfort with OAuth2, webhooks, and rate limiting.