# Founding Engineer / Builder at Gooseworks

- Company: Gooseworks (YC W23)
- What the company does: Self-Improving Ad Creative Engines. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://gooseworks.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/UJ4vH2F-founding-engineer-builder
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gooseworks-founding-engineer-builder/

## About the role

You'd be a core part of the founding team. That means owning product and engineering decisions , shipping new products and features, talking to users, and deciding what to do next. The market is constantly evolving and so are we. You should be comfortable trying lots of things with uncertain outcomes and failing fast.

## What they're looking for

- Strong technical background. You can go deep anywhere in the stack and you're fast
- You've built and launched something real that people actually used. Company, side project, open source — we care that it shipped and that it got traction, not what it was attached to
- You know how to design and architect AI agents. You've built agentic systems, hit their failure modes, and have opinions about what works
- Strong at agentic engineering. Your own output is visibly agent-leveraged. This is how our whole company operates, so we especially value people who understand the intuitions behind agentic engineering well
- Strong product and design sense. You can think clearly about what to build and why / why not. Strong design sense / taste is also highly valued
- You want the 0 → 1. Early-stage operator energy: deep in the weeds, high tolerance for ambiguity, iterating fast toward PMF

Tags: Engineering