# Founding Engineer at Chasi

- Company: Chasi (YC W26)
- What the company does: AI Revenue Engine for the Equipment Industry. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://chasi.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $170K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chasi/jobs/VLTx71b-founding-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chasi-founding-engineer/

## About the role

Founding product engineer hire. You own the product - designing the infra, building the product, handling customers relationships and onboarding.

## What they're looking for

- 2+ years building production software, ideally full-stack TypeScript/React with real backend depth
- You've worked with LLMs beyond the tutorial stage: prompt engineering, tool use, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation
- Comfortable in real-time systems: WebSockets, streaming, audio pipelines, or telephony infrastructure
- Strong opinions on architecture, loosely held. You make tradeoffs fast because you've shipped enough to know what matters
- You thrive in ambiguity. No PRDs, no Jira epics. You talk to customers, identify what to build, and ship it
- Ownership mentality — this is a founding role with founding-level equity and founding-level responsibility

Tags: Engineering