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Founding Engineer at Prox

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

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About Prox

AI product specialists for equipment manufacturers. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Knowledge Engine. You build the core engine that stores, relates, and reasons over product knowledge: manuals, compatibility matrices, installation guides, field observations, tribal knowledge. Deep infrastructure that the rest of the company builds on top of. Think Obsidian but for complex physical products.

What they're looking for

  • – no intro calls. to get considered, you post your submission to our challenge . if it's great, you'll hear from us. from there, three more steps. pass them and you're in
  • – $200k cash salary + 1% equity
  • – we're backed by Paul Graham, Bloomberg Beta, Burst Capital, SV Angel, Weights & Biases, and more. Position is in person in SF, 6 days/week
  • – The office must be filled with fun, enjoyment, inside jokes, and memes. You cannot outcompete people who are having fun
More about this role
  • – if you're delusional enough, never satisfied with your skill level, insanely hardworking, and want to carry a crazy amount of responsibility, where what you code on Monday impacts thousands of people on Tuesday, this is for you.
  • – you'll work on knowledge engines and multimodal agents for complex physical products, including expressive voice AI and codegen systems that explain what text alone can't, then lead the deployment of all of it to real customers.
  • – no intro calls. to get considered, you post your submission to our challenge . if it's great, you'll hear from us. from there, three more steps. pass them and you're in.
  • – $200k cash salary + 1% equity.
  • – we're backed by Paul Graham, Bloomberg Beta, Burst Capital, SV Angel, Weights & Biases, and more. Position is in person in SF, 6 days/week.

Every product ever sold needs support at some point. That support falls into one of two buckets.

Bucket 1: Simple stuff. T-shirts, screen protectors, keyboards. You buy it, it shows up, maybe you ask “where's my order?” once. This is solved. Zendesk and a hundred other horizontal companies solved it.

Bucket 2: Hard stuff. $20,000 industrial heaters. HVAC systems. CNC machines....

Read the full posting on Prox's site ↗

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