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Founding AI Engineer

David Joseph & Company

  • San Francisco, California
  • 18 days ago
  • $145,000–$240,000 Per Year

Highlights

As a founding engineer, you’ll build the AI agents and workflows that power the product and own customer-facing features end-to-end, working closely with the founding team in a fast-moving environment. Their product automates the document-heavy workflows that slow insurance professionals down, in a large market that is only beginning to adopt AI.

Numbers & Facts

LocationSan Francisco, California
Salary$145,000–$240,000 Per Year

Description

Our client is a well-capitalized, venture-backed startup (founded 2025) building an AI platform for the commercial insurance industry. Their product automates the document-heavy workflows that slow insurance professionals down, in a large market that is only beginning to adopt AI. You would be one of the first engineers on a small team, shaping the product from the ground up.

Founded 2025 · ~8 people · Industry: AI, Insurance

The Role

As a founding engineer, you’ll build the AI agents and workflows that power the product and own customer-facing features end-to-end, working closely with the founding team in a fast-moving environment.

What you’ll be doing

  • Build AI agents and workflows for real insurance use cases
  • Ship customer-facing product features end-to-end
  • Iterate quickly alongside the founding team in an ambiguous, high-growth setting
  • Use modern AI coding tools as a core part of your daily workflow

Tech stack: Python, React, AI coding tools

Requirements

  • 2 to 5 years of experience as a full stack engineer with exposure to AI-powered applications
  • A recent track record (within the last 1 to 2 years) of shipping customer-facing products end-to-end
  • Hands-on, daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar
  • Experience at an early-stage startup (Seed to Series B) during a high-growth phase
  • Strong Python skills
  • A computer science degree or equivalent technical foundation
  • A language-agnostic mindset, comfortable picking up new tools and switching between languages as needed

Nice to Haves

  • Prior experience in an AI Product Engineer or Applied AI Engineer role
  • Exposure to React

Why Join

  • A true founding-engineer seat with day-one ownership of product
  • Ship to real customers immediately in a large, fast-growing market
  • Well-capitalized and venture-backed, with an experienced founder

Details

  • Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Work policy: On-site
  • Compensation: $145,000–$240,000 + equity
  • Visa sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H-1B transfers)
  • Employment type: Full-time

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