We're helping a SF startup hire a Founding Engineer. Please find the details below.

About:

We're hiring a Founding Engineer to help build us a new product from the ground up. We want someone who can take a design doc and a direction and ship it fast and bug-free, with little supervision. The best fit is someone genuinely into personal AI assistants.

The role:

- Ship features end to end
- from a design doc and a direction, with little back-and-forth.

- Build the agent

- tool calling, browser automation, email and message parsing, and memory.

- Own the backend

- data models, services, integrations and deployment.

- Move fast

- pragmatic architecture and tech debt are fine. Bugs, or a UX that falls short of what was asked for, are not.

What we're looking for: The bar is high: we're looking for people who are a clear "hell yeah." A "maybe" is a no.

- Agency
- give you a goal and you go. You unblock yourself and come back with something that works.

- Agent/Harness engineering

- you've built the system around the model,



not just called its API: tool calling, memory, context management, and keeping an agent reliable across long, multi-step tasks.

- Bias toward shipping

- fast and bug-free, even if the code underneath is scrappy.

- Robust Bonus: A revealed interest in personal AI assistants - shown by your website, projects or work history, not just what you say.

Bonus: you've built your own assistant, or worked with OpenClaw or Hermes (or built your own version of one).

Example projects:

The kind of thing that would make your application stand out:

- A personal assistant on WhatsApp, Telegram or iMessage that reads your email and calendar and texts you first.
- A fork of OpenClaw or Hermes with skills you wrote, or your own agent built from scratch with tool calling and memory.
- A browser agent that does a real chore end to end, like finding products and filling a shopping cart.

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