Founding Engineer
Brainbase Labs · San Francisco, CA · 27 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$125k–$250k/yrFull-time
About the role
You will work one-on-one with our CEO and founding team to primarily iterate based on customer feedback, help with infrastructure scaling (cloud and on-premise) and improve our underlying proprietary agent system.
Responsibilities
- Ship new features
- Talk to users
- Shape company culture for other team members to come
- Iterate based on customer feedback
- Help with infrastructure scaling (cloud and on-premise)
- Improve underlying proprietary agent system
Requirements
- In SF, or willing to relocate
- US work permit (we do not currently sponsor H1-Bs, OPTs are fine)
- 2+ years of software engineering experience (new grads encouraged since pet projects count)
- Excellence with Typescript & Python
- Some experience with LLMs (OpenAI API, Langchain, HuggingFace, etc.)
- Demonstration of autonomy and entrepreneurial spirit (side projects, previous companies)
Qualifications
- Proficiency in AWS, cloud deployment, CI/CD
- Usage of React 19 + Next.js 15
- Experience with ORMs (Prisma, Drizzle, etc)
- Strong foundational understanding of communications protocols (HTTP, WebRTC, WebSockets) and telephony systems
- Experience with micro-service based architecture & building robust, flexible systems
- Machine learning research experience
- Previous startup experience
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Node.js
- Python
- React
- TypeScript
- Next.js
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with the founders of the best YC-funded startups
- Opportunity to shape company culture and culture for other team members to come
- Opportunity to iterate based on customer feedback
- Opportunity to help with infrastructure scaling (cloud and on-premise)
- Opportunity to improve underlying proprietary agent system
Pay
$125K - $250K
Schedule
Full-time