Founding Engineer

Worktrace; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-of-market salary and equity

Visa sponsorship

Generous health and dental insurance

Unlimited PTO

401K

Job summary

An innovative AI startup in San Francisco is seeking a Founding Engineer to help turn ambitious product visions into reality. In this role, you'll collaborate with teams to rapidly prototype and deliver cutting-edge AI solutions. Ideal candidates will have experience in machine learning and a passion for building user-facing products. The company offers top salary, equity, and benefits like unlimited PTO and visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Must have experience with machine learning and/or data pipelines.
• Proven ability to rapidly build user-facing products.
• Uncompromising standards of excellence.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Research and Design to create new AI applications.
• Rapidly prototype product ideas.
• Set standards for talent and culture in engineering.

Skills

Product development

Machine learning

Data pipelines

Rapid prototyping

Leadership

Job description

About us

At Worktrace AI, our our mission is to eliminate the AI divide. Frontier AI labs are developing AI that can free people to focus on meaningful, high-impact work—yet, most teams don’t know where to start and are being left behind. We’re building AI that helps teams uncover their best automation opportunities and build those automations.

The role

We are hiring a Founding Engineer to be the tip of the spear for turning Worktrace AI’s ambitious product vision into reality. In this role, you will be a key part of the founding team—ideating, prototyping, and ultimately shipping cutting-edge AI products. Besides building, you will identify key areas for engineering investment, build the technical foundation as we scale, and lead by example to build a healthy and strong engineering culture.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with Research and Design to create new ways to use AI

• Rapidly prototype product ideas and productionize novel AI research

• Set the talent and culture standards for Worktrace AI’s engineering team

You’ll excel in this role if you

• Love rapidly building user-facing products

• Have experience with machine learning and/or data pipelines

• Have uncompromising standards of excellence

• Find joy in delivering AI magic moments to users

Benefits and perks

• Top-of-market salary and equity

• Visa sponsorship

• Generous health and dental insurance for you and dependents

• Unlimited PTO

• 401K

The Team

Our founders are Angela Jiang (CMU PhD), an early product manager at OpenAI and led the launches of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, and Deepak Vasisht (MIT PhD), a CS Professor at UIUC who has deployed cutting edge AI into industries spanning agriculture to space. Our team are builders that come from Google DeepMind, Meta, MIT, McKinsey, Twitter, Uber, and HPE. Join us.

Backed by the best in AI and Enterprise

We are supported with a $9.4M seed round led by 8VC and Conviction with participation from funds like OpenAI, SV Angel, and Genius Ventures. Our angels include industry leaders, including Mira Murati (CEO of Thinking Machines Lab), Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT), Logan Kilpatrick (Google DeepMind), and Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft).