Founding Engineer, AI Platform

Ember AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding-level ownership

Direct collaboration with founders

Equity opportunity

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Ember AI is building the Enterprise Intelligence platform, a company's second brain that transforms meetings, email, documents, knowledge, and workflows into actionable intelligence. We're profitable, growing quickly, and looking for exceptional engineers to shape the future of our platform.

As a Founding Engineer, you will help define architecture, influence product direction, work directly with leadership, and build systems that scale across enterprises, embracing ambiguity and ownership in a

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience in a startup or 0-to-1 environment.
• Ability to ship products from concept through production.
• Deep familiarity with modern AI development workflows.
• Comfortable operating with limited direction and high ownership.
• Excellent communication skills and strong technical judgment.

Responsibilities

• Build core platform capabilities across AI workflows, agents, automation, and enterprise intelligence.
• Design and develop scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Turn customer requirements into reusable platform features.
• Work directly with leadership and design partners to identify opportunities and prioritize what to build.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering velocity.
• Help establish engineering practices, technical standards, and product direction.
• Contribute across the stack as needed.

Skills

Software engineering

Startup experience

AI workflows

Ownership

Communication

Tools

React

TypeScript

Job description

Ember AI is building the Enterprise Intelligence platform, a company's second brain that transforms meetings, email, documents, knowledge, and workflows into actionable intelligence.

Backed by a $10M seed round and already serving enterprise customers, Ember AI is helping organizations adopt AI in meaningful, business-critical ways. The team is made up of experienced founders, operators, and engineers who have built and scaled companies before. We're profitable, growing quickly, and looking for exceptional engineers to help shape the future of our platform.

The Opportunity

We are hiring a Founding Engineer to work directly with our leadership team and help build the core platform that powers Enterprise Intelligence.

This is not a role for someone who wants a narrowly defined scope. We are looking for a highly technical, AI-native builder who thrives in ambiguity, moves quickly, and enjoys turning ideas into production software.

You will help define architecture, influence product direction, work directly with customers, and build systems that scale across enterprises.

What You'll Do

• Build core platform capabilities across AI workflows, agents, automation, and enterprise intelligence.
• Design and develop scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Turn customer requirements into reusable platform features.
• Work directly with leadership and design partners to identify opportunities and prioritize what to build.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering velocity.
• Help establish engineering practices, technical standards, and product direction.
• Contribute across the stack as needed.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience in a startup, founding engineer, early employee, or 0-to-1 environment.
• Demonstrated ability to ship products from concept through production.
• Deep familiarity with modern AI development workflows and AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Comfortable operating with limited direction and high ownership.
• Excellent communication skills and strong technical judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Full-stack experience with React and TypeScript.
• Experience building AI-native products or agent-based systems.
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Experience working directly with customers or design partners.
• Previous founder or founding engineer experience.
• Bay Area location or willingness to travel occasionally for team gatherings.

Why Join Ember AI?

• Founding-level ownership and impact.
• Direct partnership with experienced founders and engineering leaders.
• AI-native culture and engineering environment.
• Real enterprise customers and meaningful product adoption.
• Significant growth opportunity as the company scales.
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity opportunity.

Compensation

• Equity: Meaningful early-stage equity participation

If you're excited about building in a true 0-to-1 environment and want to help define how organizations leverage AI, we'd love to hear from you.