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Founding Software Engineer (Product / MCP)

Manufact · San Francisco, CA, US · On-site

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About Manufact

Cloud infrastructure for MCP servers and Claude / ChatGPT plugins. Backed by Peak XV and Y Combinator.

About the role

You'll work on manufact.com itself. This is a product role as much as an engineering one. You decide what gets built, not just how. Ship it, watch users use it, fix what's wrong the same week.

What they're looking for

  • You are already in the MCP space (or excited about it)
  • Speed of execution. Startups move quickly
  • Must be smarter than the founders
  • Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco
More about this role

Manufact is Vercel for MCP.

We are building the MCP cloud platform to get any product ready for Claude Connectors marketplace, ChatGPT App Store and any AI agent that supports MCP.

Manufact Cloud usage is more than doubling every month.

We're the team behind mcp-use SDK (next.js for MCP), the open-source framework for building MCP Apps with 10k Github stars and 1'0M+ downloads across python and typescript.

Used by 20% of US 500 like NASA, SAP, NVIDIA and more than 5,000 companies.

We raised $6.3M seed in 4 days before YC demo day. Our lead investor is PeakXV (best dev-tools VC out there), and we have the best angels, including the founders of Supabase.

Our focus: capture a significant share of global AI tool calls that flow through Manufact.

We're hiring a founding engineer to own the product.

You'll work on manufact.com itself. This is a product role as much as an engineering one. You decide what gets built, not just how. Ship it, watch users use it, fix what's wrong the same week.

  • Build and ship the Manufact MCP Cloud product end-to-end.
  • Own the UX/DX of the platform: the deploy flow, the dashboard, the inspector, the docs surface.
  • Set the technical direction of the...

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