San Francisco, CA · On-site · Full-time
Compensation: $150,000–$300,000 + 0.1%–1% equity

About the Company

A Seed-stage AI company (founded 2024, $7.5M raised) building production-grade systems that convert complex documents into LLM-ready data for AI agents and large language models. The product preserves document structure and hierarchy while capturing domain-specific context for high-stakes workflows across Finance, Legal, and Healthcare, and is already deploying with enterprise customers. Founded 2024 · 1–10 people · Industry: AI Tools.

The Role

A founding, backend & infrastructure-heavy engineering role on a small, talent-dense team. You'll own production systems end-to-end and partner closely with the founders and research team to turn research prototypes into production-grade, scalable systems.

What you'll be doing

• Architect, build, and scale core backend systems powering document intelligence and VLM-based workflows
• Own production infrastructure end-to-end: deployments, monitoring, performance, reliability
• Design and operate high-throughput, low-latency services in real production environments
Take systems from R&D production
• enterprise scale
• Build and maintain cloud and on-prem deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) for enterprise customers
• Establish best practices for CI/CD, observability, debugging, and incident response

Tech stack: Python (required); C++/Rust (plus); distributed systems (microservices, queues, Redis); cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure); Docker, Kubernetes, Helm; Terraform / Pulumi

Requirements

• 2-5 years of experience
• Ability to work in-person at San Francisco office
• Hands-on experience building backend infrastructure

Green Flags

• Graduated from top-tier schools (IIT Bombay, Stanford, etc.)
• Very early stage startup experience (first 1-3 engineers)
• Experience at companies with strong technical DNA
• Research experience

Red Flags

• Only big tech experience (Google, Microsoft, Amazon) without startup exposure
• Experience only on abstract/high-level work without hands-on technical involvement
• 10+ years experience (too senior, not hands-on enough)
• Only enterprise/large company experience without touching core technical elements

Why Join

• A founding technical seat that defines the engineering archetype and sets the team's technical ceiling
• True end-to-end ownership across backend architecture, infrastructure, deployment, and reliability
• Real enterprise traction in high-stakes verticals (Finance, Legal, Healthcare)

Details

• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Work policy: In-person
• Compensation: $150,000–$300,000 + equity
• Visa sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, OPT
• Employment type: Full-time