Founding Engineer: Agent Infrastructure

About this role

Join an early-stage startup as a Founding Engineer to design and build core agent infrastructure powering a people-data platform. You'll own projects end-to-end, architect production systems handling millions of requests, and directly shape the company's technical strategy alongside founding leadership.

What you'll do

• Design and build core infrastructure for APIs, LLM workflows, scraping systems, and knowledge graphs
• Architect production-grade systems handling millions of API requests with focus on performance and reliability
• Own projects from problem definition through deployment and iteration
• Collaborate with founding leadership on technical decisions and roadmap priorities
• Contribute across the stack including documentation, tutorials, and internal tooling
• Build experimental systems to stress-test and showcase platform capabilities

What they're looking for

• Production systems architecture and design
• Cloud and Linux server environments
• API design and development
• LLM-powered systems or AI workflows
• Large-scale data systems or knowledge graphs
• System reliability and performance optimization
• Full-stack development capabilities
• First-principles problem-solving