# Founding Product Engineer at Consus

- Company: Consus (YC F24)
- What the company does: The fastest and cheapest way to use AI with ITAR or CUI data.  Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.consus.io
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-29
- Apply by: 2026-12-13
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/consus/jobs/Qzqadcx-founding-product-engineer?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/consus-founding-product-engineer/

## About the role

You're the first engineering hire. Gateway is live with paying customers. Next, you'll build the products that make Consus the default for aerospace and defense. You'll own the stack end to end, help decide what we build next, and work directly with the founder and our customers every day. What you build becomes how Consus builds product. We work at the intersection of frontier AI and regulated industry. We build AI-native ourselves, and our customers look to us to show them what's possible within the rules. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You handle things. Give you a problem and you'll figure it out, build it, test it, and ship it fast. Trial and error beats waiting for a spec
- You have product sense. You talk to users, figure out what they actually need, and push back when what they ask for is wrong, including when it's the founder asking
- You're curious. You always ask why and how, and you don't make assumptions
- You're great with cloud architecture. You've designed and run production systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP, and infrastructure as code is second nature
- You're AI-native. Agents and coding tools are how you work every day, you've built with LLM APIs, and you know where frontier tools break. You stay on the frontier and bring others with you
- U.S. person is required given our work with ITAR-controlled systems

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/consus-founding-product-engineer/