# Founding Engineer (AI + Backend) at Openbenchmarks

- Company: Openbenchmarks (YC F24)
- What the company does: We help humans & agents pick tools via Independent Benchmarks. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://openbenchmarks.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $120K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/openbenchmarks/jobs/j6hc4eQ-founding-engineer-ai-backend
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openbenchmarks-founding-engineer-ai-backend/

## About the role

We're a team of researchers, engineers and theorists, in person in SF. You'll be building the benchmarks and the systems that run them. Benchmarks and evals design - designing domain-specific benchmarks from scratch: what to measure, how to ground it, and what makes a benchmark that an agent will continuously trust and pick from.

## What they're looking for

- Any (new grads ok) of experience
- Will sponsor
- Full-time Engineering role

Tags: Engineering