222 founding engineer jobs at 121 companies in San Bruno, CA
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Founding Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$160k-$270k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Clera: AI-powered talent agent matching candidates to startup roles.
3+ YOE3+ years of engineering experience, strong computer science fundamentals, Rust or Go proficiency, and production experience designing distributed systems, databases, or storage infrastructure.
Origamics: Builds physics-informed AI models that generate fabrication-ready circuit boards for hardware engineers.
Experience building systems from zero to one, making storage, compute, architecture, build-versus-buy, and maintenance trade-offs, with interest or experience in agentic systems and foundational models.
Aurorin CAD: AI-native CAD software for mechanical engineers and hardware teams, built to speed up computer-aided design.
Strong systems programming/native app background, experience with Swift and C++, GPU programming experience preferred, proactive and high-responsibility engineer.
Compresr: LLM context compression for better accuracy
Experienced full-stack engineer with strong backend fundamentals, concurrency/distributed systems, AWS production deployment, Python and light frontend skills, and excellent communication.
Syntro: Private AI procurement platform helping hardware manufacturers discover, select, and manage component suppliers.
Exceptional engineer with zero-to-one complex systems experience, full-stack ability, strong judgment, and expertise in reliability, data correctness, observability, and ambiguous problem-solving.
Pear VC: Private seed-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed technology companies and supporting founders.
Experienced full-stack engineer with production experience in TypeScript/React/Next.js, backend APIs and Postgres, desktop/web (Electron or Tauri), LLM features in production, CI/CD, testing, observability, and customer-facing product work.
Pax Historia: AI-powered alternate-history game platform serving players and creators who build and share interactive scenarios.
Strong software engineering fundamentals, fast learning ability, attention to detail, data orientation, and rigorous verification mindset. Experience with this exact role is not required.
Andreessen Horowitz: Private venture capital firm investing in startups from seed through growth stages and helping founders build companies.
3+ YOE3+ years building and shipping consumer iOS software; strong Swift, SwiftUI, AVFoundation, and iOS expertise; end-to-end app experience; full-stack, product metrics, privacy, and 0-to-1 development experience.
Ember AI: AI-powered revenue integrity platform helping specialty physician practices and health systems prevent denials and improve reimbursement.
Bachelor's or master's degree in a technical field; proficiency in TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Python; experience with LLM applications and containerized deployments; strong collaboration and problem-solving skills.
Kita: Private AI credit-assessment platform helping lenders underwrite borrowers from messy financial documents.
Production experience with LLM-based systems, strong backend fundamentals, and Python or TypeScript experience. No years-of-experience requirement; regulated-industry experience is preferred.
Momentic: AI-powered end-to-end testing platform for software engineering teams across web, iOS, and Android.
3+ YOERequires 3+ years of experience, LLM performance tuning, evaluations, observability, application integration, fine-tuning, evaluation dataset engineering, and proficiency with modern software technologies.
Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Together AI, Baseten
deCircle: Boutique recruitment partner for high-tech and Web3 organizations.
2+ YOE2–5+ years software engineering experience; proficiency in two of Next.js, TypeScript, C#, Go, or Python; experience with event-driven architectures, full-stack ownership, and AI-assisted development tools.
Autostep: Software startup that maps knowledge work, measures costs, and builds AI agents for businesses.
Demonstrated shipped work and real outcomes; strong Python; ability to learn quickly, work across ML and full-stack systems, communicate with customers, and investigate problems. Degrees optional.
Hypercubic: AI-native mainframe modernization platform serving enterprises and governments with tools to understand, operate, and transform COBOL systems.
0+ YOEFounding backend engineer with strong engineering and design taste; ownership over architecture and engineering culture. Experience with AI-powered systems and legacy modernization is a plus.
Corridor: AI-native health insurance brokerage helping small businesses choose, enroll in, and manage employee benefits.
Demonstrated technical ownership, high-stakes systems judgment, product decision-making, curiosity about AI agents, fast high-quality delivery, and strong Python and TypeScript proficiency.