Founding AI Platform Engineer — Equity & Impact

Alpha Associates Recruitment; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

In-office

Job summary

Alpha Associates Recruitment is helping a seed-backed AI startup find a founding engineer to build a next-generation AI platform for enterprise procurement and supply chains. The role is in San Francisco, fully in-office, with significant ownership from day one.

You’ll own end-to-end development, shape technical roadmap, and work directly with founders and customers to deliver scalable AI-powered workflows.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, Java or C++, with modern backend frameworks.
• Strong CS fundamentals and experience with databases, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Understanding of LLMs, AI agents and ML infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Building end-to-end across backend, frontend, data infrastructure and cloud deployment.
• Developing AI agents, LLM workflows, evaluations and guardrails.
• Designing scalable systems to handle complex enterprise data and integrations.
• Owning features from customer conversations through to deployment.
• Helping establish engineering practices and shaping the future product and team.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Java

C++

Backend frameworks

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

LLMs

Job description

Alpha Associates Recruitment is helping a seed-backed AI startup find a founding engineer to build a next-generation AI platform for enterprise procurement and supply chains. The role is in San Francisco, fully in-office, with significant ownership from day one.

You’ll own end-to-end development, shape technical roadmap, and work directly with founders and customers to deliver scalable AI-powered workflows.