Founding Engineer

Mobasi is hiring a founding engineer to own infrastructure, Dev Ops, and productionization as we scale from our first pilots to dozens of customers this year. You'll be our first hire outside the three cofounders, joining at the stage where we've validated the product and are ready to scale.

We're bootstrapped, profitable, and shipping fast. Our customers use Mobasi to turn days of manual evidence analysis into minutes of automated investigation. In our early deployments, we've solved fraud cases, located child victims of sexual exploitation, tracked the exfiltration of company secrets, and more.

Our philosophy is simple: build a small engineering SWAT team enabled by the best AI and tooling. Our goal is to bring Mobasi to all 6,000+ US law enforcement agencies with a small, tight-knit squad of engineers. Everyone on the team has outsized responsibility, reach, and reward.

As our Founding Engineer, you'll take ownership over all backend infrastructure. Your job is to product ionize what we learn, maintain the infrastructure that keeps investigations moving, and build the systems that let us ship faster and scale.

This is not a Dev Ops role where you're handed tickets. You will make architectural decisions, own compliance, and build the deployment systems that get our product into the hands of investigators.

Specifically, you will:

• Own the build and deployment pipeline. Today, we ship updates manually. You'll turn our process into an automated update delivery system that scales to thousands of customers.

• Take over cloud infrastructure. We use them all: AWS, GCP, Azure, Anthropic, and OpenAI. You'll manage dependencies across these providers, build systems for provisioning accounts and tracking usage, ensure we stay within thresholds for each customer, and keep everything secure and monitored.

• Own security and compliance. Law enforcement customers require CJIS compliance and SOC
  2. You'll own adherence to these frameworks, manage package security, and set up automated monitoring systems.

• Build CI/CD that handles our unique challenges. We're not running unit tests on small datasets. You'll handle integration tests involving tens or hundreds of gigabytes of forensic data and develop evaluation approaches for investigative outputs that aren't always deterministic.

Mobasi builds autonomous AI agents that conduct digital forensics investigations for law enforcement. Our mission is to put advanced digital forensics tools into every investigator's hands through AI. Our flagship product orchestrates 150+ forensic analysis tools, providing investigators with natural language interfaces for deep evidence analysis and reporting.

Right now, 92% of crimes involve digital evidence, but agencies are drowning in it. Devices sit in backlogs for months and when investigators finally get to them, they're stuck doing manual searches across mountains of data, often missing what they need.

We work with agencies investigating cases where time is crucial - missing persons, trafficking, child exploitation, homicides. When we get it right, investigators find leads they would have missed. When we don't, cases go cold.

You should apply if:

• You're AI-native. You use AI day in and day out. You’ve been experimenting with agents, have an opinion on when to use Claude vs Cursor. You ship 5-10x faster than others by leveraging these tools, and you're excited about automating parts of your job away.
• You're comfortable owning infrastructure end-to-end. You've managed cloud accounts, built CI/CD pipelines, and dealt with compliance. You don't need someone to break work into tickets for you.
• You can move across the entire stack. This role focuses on infrastructure, but you can shift into writing application-level code, talking to customers, or whatever else needs doing. You're not someone who says "that's not my job".
• You pay attention to the details. We make heavy use of AI, but we can’t “vibe-code” our way to a successful, secure investigative agent. You understand your systems deeply enough to own them in production.
• You're a continuous learner. You're on the cutting edge, teaching…