# Founding Engineer, ML + Forward Deployment at Autostep

- Company: Autostep (YC P26)
- What the company does: The P&L for knowledge work. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://autostep.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/autostep/jobs/7XJCOTX-founding-engineer-ml-forward-deployment
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/autostep-founding-engineer-ml-forward-deployment/

## About the role

Autostep measures outcomes from human and AI work, identifies what companies should change, and helps make that change happen. We have real customer pull. We’re hiring two founding engineers to help turn that pull into exceptional, repeatable customer results.

## What they're looking for

- Build and improve our data + ML pipeline across accuracy, context, speed, evals, algorithms, agents, and cost
- Ship new projects, product surfaces, UI, experiments, and features constantly. Small projects and improvements should be able to ship daily
- Improve our existing Mac/Windows desktop app across reliability, performance, deployment, and new capabilities
- Work directly with customers to clarify messy requirements and environments, question assumptions, define the actual problem, and create as much value as possible
- Turn lessons from individual customers into repeatable product improvements that make the next deployment better
- Keep engineering clean as you move quickly: requirements, PRDs, Linear, documentation, tests, decisions, and deadlines should stay current

Tags: Engineering