# Founding Engineer at Klavis AI

- Company: Klavis AI (YC P25)
- What the company does: High Quality Coding & Agentic Data for AI labs. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.klavis.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/klavis-ai/jobs/tEVtDPg-founding-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/klavis-ai-founding-engineer/

## About the role

We’re hiring a founding engineer who is genuinely exceptional at using LLMs and coding agents to build, test, debug, and ship real software.

## What they're looking for

- Have 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Are extremely strong with LLMs, coding agents, and AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Can build across Python, TypeScript, shell, Docker, Git, APIs, databases, and modern dev tools
- Have strong taste for realistic long-horizon coding tasks, test design, agent workflows, evals, and edge cases
- Care deeply about correctness, verification, reproducibility, and data quality
- Move fast without accepting sloppy work

Tags: Engineering