Founding Senior Software Engineer — Agentic AI Platform (SF Onsite)

Hyperscale

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Hyperscale is hiring a Founding Senior Software Engineer to help build the core product infrastructure for our agentic AI platform. You will work directly with the founders, spanning backend to real-time interfaces and customer-facing features.

You will tackle real-time decision-making, tool use, and human-AI interaction patterns, not just LLM integration. This is a zero-to-one role with ownership of significant product parts from day one.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with full-stack delivery.
  • Strong fundamentals in backend systems, databases, APIs, and web apps.
  • Comfortable across the stack and quickly learning new technologies.
  • Track record of owning complex features from design to deployment.
  • Experience building production systems at scale with focus on reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own core product features end-to-end, including data models and conversational UX.
  • Design scalable backend systems powering AI agents in production, with orchestration and memory.

Skills

Full-stack development
Backend systems
APIs
Real-time systems
Engineering leadership

Job description

Hyperscale is hiring a Founding Senior Software Engineer to help build the core product infrastructure for our agentic AI platform. You will work directly with the founders, spanning backend to real-time interfaces and customer-facing features.

You will tackle real-time decision-making, tool use, and human-AI interaction patterns, not just LLM integration. This is a zero-to-one role with ownership of significant product parts from day one.

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