Founding Python Engineer for Autonomous AI Platform

Solvin AI, Inc.

United States

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Foundational impact
Significant equity
Cutting-edge AI technology
Direct influence

Job summary

Solvin AI, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Founding Engineer to design, build, and deploy the foundational elements of our product, moving from concept to a production-ready MVP and beyond. You will work in a fast-paced environment where your contributions are visible from day one.

You will own core components, write scalable Python code, and help shape the technical roadmap while collaborating closely with the founders and mentoring future engineers.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software development experience.
  • At least 4 years of Python development.
  • 1 year hands-on experience building generative AI technologies and agentic systems utilizing LLMs and frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex.
  • Proven expertise in backend development and production systems.
  • Self-starter capable of thriving in a fast-paced startup.

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of significant parts of our system, architecting and building our core product from the ground up.
  • Write clean, high-performance, and scalable code, primarily in Python.
  • Collaborate closely with the founders to define and iterate on the product roadmap and technical strategy.
  • Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure for our AI and machine learning models.
  • Establish and champion best practices for software development, including testing, CI/CD, and code reviews.
  • Contribute to all phases of the product development lifecycle, from ideation and design to implementation and launch.
  • Help shape our engineering culture and mentor future team members as we grow.

Skills

Backend development
Python
Production systems
Independent / self-starter

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Master's degree or PhD considered a plus

Tools

LangChain
LlamaIndex
AWS
GCP
Azure
Kubernetes
TypeScript
Java
C++

Job description

Solvin AI, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Founding Engineer to design, build, and deploy the foundational elements of our product, moving from concept to a production-ready MVP and beyond. You will work in a fast-paced environment where your contributions are visible from day one.

You will own core components, write scalable Python code, and help shape the technical roadmap while collaborating closely with the founders and mentoring future engineers.

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