# Founding Engineer at Manicule

- Company: Manicule (YC P26)
- What the company does: AgentRel — Devrel For Agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://manicule.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/manicule/jobs/kAJ7hYb-founding-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/manicule-founding-engineer/

## About the role

Ideally, you write excellent TypeScript, but you also understand the fundamentals of GEO—or have spent enough time studying LLMs to form a view on how they surface sources and recommend brands. You care about writing quality and can tell the difference between a useful technical explanation and fluent filler. This is not a role where you receive finished specs and close tickets. You’ll work directly with our customers to understand the problem, decide what to build, and own it through production.

## What they're looking for

- You have 3+ years of professional software-engineering experience
- You’re excellent with TypeScript and comfortable working across a product
- You have opinions on GEO and how LLMs discover and surface information
- You have strong opinions about what makes technical content useful, credible, and worth reading
- You build with agents yourself and think seriously about context, retrieval, evaluation, and human review
- You can operate without a detailed specification and know when to ask questions

Tags: Engineering