28 founding engineer jobs at 19 companies in Soquel, CA

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Founding Engineer
Palo Alto or California
$140k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
TrueMeter
TrueMeter: AI-powered platform for commercial energy savings and bill management.
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.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Postgres, Electron, Tauri, Claude Code, Codex, CI/CD, GitHub, LLM
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Principal Founding Engineer, AI-Native Product Incubation
Redwood City, California, United States
$193k-$297k/yr HybridFull Time
Electronic Arts
Electronic ArtsNASDAQ: EA: Develops and publishes video games and interactive entertainment software.
10+ YOE10+ years building and shipping full-stack products; strong frontend, backend, cloud, and distributed systems skills; experience with AI-assisted development and designing scalable architectures; excellent problem-solving and communication.
AI coding agents, LLM, CI/CD
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Founding Autonomy Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$100k-$180k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Strata Robotics
Strata Robotics: Developing autonomous robotic platforms for heavy outdoor construction.
Degree in robotics/computer science, hands-on manipulation experience, proficiency in Python and C++, ROS2, experience with perception, planning, control, and simulation tooling; ability to debug full-stack robotic systems.
MuJoCo, Gazebo, Isaac Sim, Python, C++, ROS2, MoveIt, OpenCV, PCL, RViz, rosbag
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Founding Agent Harness Engineer
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Model AI
Model AI: Building high-performance infrastructure for agentic AI systems.
Strong Python and systems engineering skills, experience building LLM agents, evaluation harnesses, CI/CD and developer tooling, testing and benchmarking, and ability to turn research into production systems.
Python, LLM, Agent Cloud, CI/CD, SWE-bench, RL
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Founding Full-stack / Product Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States
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Hiring.Cafe
Hiring.Cafe: An AI-powered job search engine and aggregator.
Ownership from day one; strong programming and systems design; fast learner; detail-oriented; experience shipping full-stack products.
React, Next.js, Firebase, Elasticsearch, Redis, Stripe
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Design Engineer (Founding Engineer) - TikTok
San Jose, California, United States
$122k-$288k/yr OnsiteFull Time
TikTok
TikTok: Global short-form video hosting and social media platform.
Experience shipping production mobile/full-stack systems, deep expertise in at least one mobile stack, hands-on use of AI coding agents, founding/early-team experience, strong product and technical problem-solving skills.
iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, Android, Kotlin, Compose, Lynx, Cursor, Claude Code
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Founding ML Engineer – Demand Generation
Mountain View, California, United States
$220k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Clera
Clera: AI talent agent matching professionals with high-growth startup roles
3+ YOE3+ years ML engineering experience focused on demand generation, strong Python and PyTorch/TensorFlow skills, experience with data pipelines, marketing APIs (HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Ads API, Meta Ads API), and US work authorization.
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Ads API, Meta Ads API, LLMs
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Founding Engineer (AI & Product, US)
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$250k-$400k/yr OnsiteFull Time
ThinkingAI
ThinkingAI: Enterprise platform for deploying autonomous AI agent teams.
5+ YOE5+ years building and shipping production software; hands-on LLM, vector DB, and agent framework experience; product-minded, customer-facing, fluent in English and Mandarin.
OpenAI, Anthropic, LLM, vector databases, agent frameworks
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Founding Data Engineer, AI Platform
United States or Canada or San Mateo or Provo
$165k-$350k/yr RemoteFull Time
GC AI
GC AI: AI-powered legal platform for in-house legal teams.
5+ YOE5+ years data engineering experience; strong SQL and BigQuery skills; proficiency in Python; experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and working in GCP; ability to design clean, performant data models.
BigQuery, Python, SQL, GCP, Terraform, LLMs
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Founding Solutions Engineer - USA
Mountain View, California, United States
$170k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
Inworld AI
Inworld AI: Software for creating and deploying interactive artificial intelligence characters.
5+ YOE5+ years in a customer-facing technical role; strong Python coding; AI/ML API knowledge; ability to run technical POCs; strong communication; Bachelor's or higher in technical field.
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, LLM APIs, WebSocket, WebRTC
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Applied AI Engineer, Founding Team
New York City or Milwaukee or Dallas or Columbus or Kirkland or Cincinnati or Cleveland or Oklahoma City or Austin or Albany or Chicago or St. Petersburg or Hartford or Pittsburgh or St. Louis or Miami or Sacramento or Raleigh or Minneapolis or Mountain View or Scottsdale or San Francisco or Morristown or Denver or Boston or Philadelphia or Des Moines or Overland Park or Los Angeles or Charlotte or Walnut Creek or Carmel or Seattle or Houston or Arlington or Atlanta or Redmond or Bentonville or Beaverton or Nashville or Detroit or San Diego
$63k-$219k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Accenture
AccentureNYSE: ACN: Global provider of management consulting and technology services.
5+ YOE5+ years in software engineering/AI/enterprise tech; 1+ year building hybrid retrieval systems and agentic AI (Claude/Anthropic); experience with MCP servers; ability to translate AI concepts; Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Anthropic, Claude, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Oracle 23ai, Oracle, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), EPM, ERP
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Founding Full-stack engineer
San Mateo or Burlingame
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MadMen AI
MadMen AI: AI-powered platform for generating and optimizing digital ads.
Experience building front-end with React or Next.js; backend APIs with Node.js/Express; databases with Prisma/RDS; AWS Lambdas and cron-jobs; experience fine-tuning LLMs or working with ML/Computer Vision is a plus.
React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, Prisma, RDS, Lambdas, Cron-jobs, AWS, LLMs
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Product Engineer
Palo Alto or Bay Area
$180k-$250k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Alma
Alma: Legal tech platform automating U.S. immigration and visa processes.
2+ YOEBackend-leaning, AI-native engineer owning features end-to-end with customer obsession; collaborates with founding team; comfortable across backend and frontend.
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Containerization, Microservices, TypeScript, React, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, MCP servers
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Founding Recruiter
San Mateo, California, United States
HybridFull Time
Stealth HC: A stealth-mode healthcare AI startup building products to help physicians start, operate, and grow independent practices.
3+ YOE3+ years full-cycle recruiting experience hiring across ops, engineering, GTM and product; strong outbound sourcing, talent mapping, candidate assessment, and data-driven recruiting skills.
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Founding Account Executive
San Mateo, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
SkyPilot
SkyPilot: Unified compute platform for orchestrating AI workloads across clouds.
Proven track record closing net-new business selling technical infrastructure or developer/data platforms to technical buyers; experience selling compute/GPUs preferred; strong technical fluency with engineers.
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Founding AI Native Lead
Milpitas, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Embedding VC: Venture capital firm backing early-stage generative AI startups.
5+ YOE5+ years across product, engineering, AI workflows, founder office, or Chief of Staff; daily AI power user; hands-on with Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent; API and scripting fluency; strong cross-functional execution.
Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Cursor, APIs, agent frameworks, LLM routing
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Founding AI Native Lead
Milpitas, California, United States
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RoboForce
RoboForce: Develops autonomous AI robots for industrial labor tasks.
5+ YOE5+ years across product, engineering, AI workflows, founder office, or Chief of Staff roles; daily AI power user with hands-on experience using Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent or equivalent; technical fluency with APIs, scripting, agent frameworks, and integrations.
Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Cursor
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Open Call – Research Engineer / Scientist
San Carlos, California, United States
$250k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
1X
1X: Manufacturing safe, general-purpose humanoid robots for home and work.
Demonstrated exceptional technical achievement (e.g., first-author publication, prototype, or founding a deep-technology venture) and ability to translate research into working systems; deep expertise in robotics, AI, controls, sensing, materials, manufacturing, or related fields preferred.
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Engineering Manager, Atlas (Spatial Systems)
San Mateo, California, United States
$220k-$315k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Verkada
Verkada: Sells integrated AI-powered cloud physical security hardware and software.
Proven engineering leadership to architect spatial systems and build a founding team; deep frontend rendering and data pipeline experience; strong communication and stakeholder negotiation skills.
React, WebGL, WebGPU, Swift, Kotlin, ML, ETL, CAD
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Assoc./Full Professor of Engineering Practice for Executive MS in AI Engineering Leadership Program (West Lafayette, IN, US)
West Lafayette or Palo Alto
HybridFull Time
Purdue University
Purdue University: Public research university providing undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
10+ YOEPhD in electrical/computer engineering or computer science or MS with 10+ years of experience; strong leadership; founding faculty and program-directing capabilities; expertise in AI, AI infrastructure, robotics preferred.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, AI infrastructure