Founding Engineer

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

Job summary

Fig AI is assembling a founding engineering team in San Francisco to build the core AI platform that automates data ingestion, document processing, and agent-based workflows for ingredient manufacturers. You will work directly with the founders on critical architectural decisions and hands-on product delivery.

Ideal candidates have shipped products, enjoy operating with limited resources, and thrive when exploring unknown territory.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering shipped products with real user impact (preferably in AI or data-intensive apps).
• Strong problem-solving and written/oral communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced founding-team environment.

Responsibilities

• Join the founding engineering team and work directly with the founders on core platform decisions.
• Build backend systems to ingest hundreds of PDFs from ERPs and inboxes.
• Develop an agent that can complete a 100-page食品 safety document and other complex tasks.

Skills

System design

Frontend development

Backend development

Problem solving

Tools

Kotlin

Spring Boot

React

NextJS

Postgres

GCP

Gemini

Anthropic

Job description

About Fig

Fig is the AI platform for industrial ingredient manufacturers, the $750B industry that makes the ingredients in every food you eat. Some of the top ingredient businesses in the US are already on the platform and demand is pulling us forward faster than we can hire. Backed by Innovation Endeavors alongside angels from Instacart and foundational model labs who bet on this team.

The role

You'd join our founding engineering team, working directly with the founders every day and in every major decision the company makes. Some days you'll build backend systems that ingest hundreds of PDFs from customer ERPs and inboxes. Other days you'll build an agent that completes a 100 page food safety document. Frontend, backend, infra, agents. Everything is fair game.

The team

You'd work daily with founders out of Stanford, Instacart, Nature's Fynd, and Bain, plus a CTO who was the first engineer at two startups before this one. Between us: multiple successful tech companies and a multigenerational food manufacturing business. It's the rare room where deep AI talent and deep ingredient industry roots sit at the same table.

How we build

Kotlin and Spring Boot, React and NextJS, Postgres, GCP, Gemini and Anthropic, plus a healthy stipend for coding agent(s) of your choice. Intentionally simple. We'd rather go deep on a small set of tools than spread thin across a trendy stack.

Who wins here

A builder. You've shipped products real people used and you can explain what you'd do differently. You'd rather ship something 80% right today and iterate tomorrow than debate architecture for two weeks. If you enjoy rolling up your sleeves and diving into unknown territory, you'll feel at home at Fig.

We don't care where you went to school or how many years you have. We care about what you've built and how you think.