Founding Engineer — AI Data Pipelines, Equity

Abstraction; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity 0.5%-2%

Job summary

Upriver is seeking a founding engineer to help turn what’s happening across the web and social into a structured context graph for AI agents and LLM apps. You will work closely with the team to design, build, and deploy scalable systems in production.

The role is full-time and on-site in San Francisco, with equity on offer. You’ll have the opportunity to impact product direction while working with customers to see how the product is used in real environments.

Qualifications

• You’ve built agents to solve problems.
• You’ve built scalable data pipelines, APIs, and backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines at huge web scale.
• Leverage multimodal and frontier data processing techniques to spot patterns, calculate historical lookbacks, and predict future patterns.
• Build performant APIs that can handle high concurrent loads.

Skills

Agents to solve problems

Web-scale data pipelines

Backend APIs & systems

Job description

Upriver is seeking a founding engineer to help turn what’s happening across the web and social into a structured context graph for AI agents and LLM apps. You will work closely with the team to design, build, and deploy scalable systems in production.

The role is full-time and on-site in San Francisco, with equity on offer. You’ll have the opportunity to impact product direction while working with customers to see how the product is used in real environments.