Founding Engineer: Build & Scale an Enterprise LLM Platform

LYA Collective

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 300,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Founding role

Highly competitive salary

Generous equity participation

Health, vision, and dental insurance

Job summary

LYA Collective in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Founding Engineer to build and scale their platform from the ground up. This 0-to-1 role offers significant ownership over product, architecture, LLM systems, and data models for real enterprise customers.

You'll join a growing team and work directly with founders, customers, and GTM to move the product forward with high autonomy and impact.

Qualifications

BS in Computer Science or related field.
Relational database schema design and distributed systems fundamentals.
1-8 years of experience in full-stack software engineering, with focus on Python and LLM systems.
Startup, founding, or 0-to-1 ownership (small startup is accepted too).

Responsibilities

Architect and ship agentic workflows and RAG pipelines in production for external enterprise customers.
Design the relational schemas and scalable pipelines the platform runs on.
Own features and products outright, with full autonomy over driving the outcome.
Collaborate with go-to-market and get on customer calls when it moves the product forward, no translation layer required.
Turn what Fortune 50 accounts tell us into fast, continuous improvements to the platform.