Founding Software Engineer

CommodityAI
What We Do

Commodity

AI is building AI that automates workflows in one of the world’s most operationally complex industries—commodities. These are the companies that move the resources our world runs on: the grains that feed us, the metals that build our cities, and the energy that powers everything in between.

Behind every trade and shipment, however, critical data lives in emails, PDFs, and legacy systems, slowing operations, increasing errors, and tying up teams in manual work. Commodity

AI is a digital operator for the physical commodities world. It continuously interprets trade data, reconciles movements, and flags issues in real time—giving teams greater clarity across every transaction.

We’re redefining how commodity businesses execute by embedding intelligence into their daily workflows—helping them manage risk, streamline logistics, and move the world’s resources with greater speed and accuracy. Commodity

AI is building intelligence and automation at the foundation of global trade.

We’re aY Combinator–backed company (W24 batch) driving AI adoption within the $10T+ commodities industry.

Commodity

AI is backed by some of thetop investors in the world, including Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, and the founders of You Tube and Reddit.

As one of the earliest hires, you’ll have the opportunity to shape not just our product, but how we build as a company. You’ll work directly with the founders - shipping features, influencing strategy, and making decisions that impact customers and the business every day.

We move fast, operate with extreme ownership, and deeply value engineers who can think like founders.

We’re looking for asenior or staff-level engineer with experience building infast-paced startup environments—someone who thrives on autonomy, makes great decisions, and takes pride in seeing their work drive real customer impact.

You won’t just code - you’ll design and buildagentic, LLM-powered systems that operate in production, shaping how our customers interact with data and automation.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Hassound technical judgment and can make trade-offs that balance speed, quality, and long-term value.
• Operates withtrust and agency, freeing others from needing to manage or unblock them.
• Hashands-on experience deploying AI/LLM-based systemsin real-world settings (retrieval, evaluation, orchestration, or structured extraction).
• Isdeeply curiousabout the problems we’re solving - whether that’s in commodities, logistics, or applied AI.
• Works best when given context, not control - you decide what needs to be done and move.

This role is ideal for someone who’s been an early technical leader at a startup, loves the 0 to 1 stage, and wants to have tangible ownership in building something transformative.

• Build and scale the core systems that power our intelligent automation platform.
• Work across the stack—from backend APIs and data pipelines to LLM orchestration and frontend workflows.
• Design and deployagentic AI componentsthat handle reasoning, extraction, and decision-making at scale.
• Collaborate directly with customers to understand problems and deliver meaningful, production-ready solutions.
• Contribute to a culture of ownership, autonomy, and trust- where every engineer is empowered to make high-impact decisions.

• You’re empathetic, collaborative, and driven—the kind of person who believes no problem is too big to solve.
• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering, ideally at a fast-paced startup or high-growth company.
• Proven ability toown projects end-to-end. From idea to architecture, implementation, and deployment.
• Demonstrated experience building and shipping LLM—or agent-based systems in production, including orchestration, structured outputs, or evaluation workflows.
• Strong in React, Type Script, Go, Node, or Python(we value good judgment and adaptability over any one stack).
• Exceptionaltechnical judgment—knows when to move fast and when to build for the long term.
• Experience makingimpactful product or system decisionsthat improved user experience or team velocity.
• Demonstratedownership mentality—acts in the best interest of the company and customer without waiting for direction.
• Passion for solving complex, real-world operational problems—ideally with exposure tocommodities, logistics, or data automation.

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity in a rapidly growing company
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Opportunity to shape the future of an old-school yet vital global industry
• A collaborative, high-trust environment where your decisions have real impact

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In short: We’re looking for a senior/staff-level engineer with the judgment and agency of a founder - someone who’s built real LLM-powered systems, can make great decisions on behalf of the company, and helps us move faster toward our mission.