Founding Engineer — AI Platform & LLM Pipelines (Remote)

Rise Talent Advisors

San Francisco (CA)

Remote

USD 120,000 - 210,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity included

Job summary

Rise Talent Advisors is seeking a founding software engineer to help build and scale an AI-driven platform that extracts data from complex documents. You’ll own backend architecture and collaborate with founders to ship a next-generation product, while shaping tooling and engineering practices on a small, fast-moving team.

Remote in the US with Pacific/Eastern time coordination. Equity is part of the offer as the team scales from an early-stage phase into growth.

Qualifications

2–6 years of software engineering experience as a hands-on contributor.
Experience at early-stage, venture-backed startups (seed–Series B) or as a founding engineer.
Proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
Owned backend architecture decisions for classic systems with LLM features on top.
Shipped large language model or agent-based features to production.
Owned features from design to production.
University degree in CS or related field from a top US university; please include GPA.

Responsibilities

Build the core platform as a generalist with backend focus and some frontend work.
Make backend architecture decisions in collaboration with founders and engineering leadership.
Design and build document extraction and LLM agent pipelines at the product's center.
Ship the next major version and explore related workflows.
Own features end-to-end, including production performance and failure modes.
Translate customer needs into product through clearly defined problems.
Set early engineering practices, tooling, and standards.