Founding Engineer for Enterprise AI & Code Gen Platform

Praxis, Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 160,000 - 250,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity
In-person SF Bay Area
Visa sponsorship available

Job summary

Praxis, Inc. is seeking a Founding Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area to own a zero-to-one product and its infrastructure.

You will design secure connectors, runtime, and tooling used daily by developers, and you will work directly with customers on high-leverage projects. You will move fast, maintain crisp communication, and own decisions with partial information while shaping the engineering culture and roadmap.

Qualifications

  • Own zero-to-one product and its infrastructure.
  • Experience building enterprise-grade software for reliability.
  • Comfortable making decisions with 80 percent information.

Responsibilities

  • Design the agentic layer with self-checking, reflection, and verification passes.
  • Experience orchestrating agentic workflows and retrieval augmented generation.
  • Stand up low latency inference paths with token-level observability.
  • Productionize prompt pipelines and light fine-tuning.
  • Hands-on use of AI tools with clear ideas for applying AI to development, testing, data, and support.

Skills

Software engineering
AI systems
LangGraph familiarity

Tools

LangGraph
Inference serving
Prompt pipelines
Retrieval augmented generation

Job description

Praxis, Inc. is seeking a Founding Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area to own a zero-to-one product and its infrastructure.

You will design secure connectors, runtime, and tooling used daily by developers, and you will work directly with customers on high-leverage projects. You will move fast, maintain crisp communication, and own decisions with partial information while shaping the engineering culture and roadmap.

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