Founding Engineer

The role

This company is building AI automation for a critical, traditionally manual process: SOX audit testing. They’re replacing manual evidence management, sample evaluation, and decision logging with a fully agentic approach. Backed by leading investors at pre‑seed, the founding team brings deep engineering leadership from successful AI and venture‑backed startups.

This is a Founding Engineer role, one of the first hires into the core engineering team. You’ll own the backbone of the product end‑to‑end: from data processing and UI to the agent harness, evaluation, and deployment. This isn’t a siloed role where you hand off work; it’s full‑stack ownership, shaping product direction alongside the founders, and engaging directly with customers. You’ll build with proven methods, not chasing novelty.

• Scope, build, and launch core product features that automate SOX audit workflows end‑to‑end.
• Own the full stack: from data processing and UI to the agent harness, evaluation, and deployment.
• Drive product direction and roadmap decisions, balancing customer needs with long‑term system health.
• Apply cutting‑edge AI models to complex, real‑world audit problems, prioritizing pragmatic, scalable solutions.
• Engage directly with customers to understand pain points and validate solutions.

• Proven experience building, launching, and scaling production systems as a software engineer.
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑driven solutions, pushing the capabilities of modern models while maintaining engineering pragmatism.
• Thrive in ambiguity, owning problems end‑to‑end with minimal guidance, and iterating quickly.
• Comfortable engaging directly with customers to gather feedback and validate solutions.
• Based in San Francisco and able to work in person with the founding team.

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