# Founding SWE / MLE at Salus

- Company: Salus (YC W26)
- What the company does: Guardrails to validate your agent's actions before they execute. Backed by Antler.
- Company website: https://www.usesalus.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $250K to $500K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salus/jobs/6xN06s6-founding-swe-mle
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/salus-founding-swe-mle/

## About the role

We're looking for a founding engineer who is genuinely cracked across three things most people are only good at one of: LLMs and agents, systems, and shipping real software. You'd be one of our first engineers, working directly with me on everything from the core product to deploying Salus inside customer codebases to the research that keeps us ahead.

## What they're looking for

- Deep with LLMs and agents, you understand tool calling, context, eval, and where agents actually break in production
- Strong systems engineer, low-latency and correctness-critical code doesn't scare you
- Excellent all-around SWE, you go from a vague problem to a working thing fast
- Comfortable straddling product and research, you want to build the thing and figure out the hard open problems behind it
- You move fast, have taste, and want to be early at something that matters
- Honestly, just be cracked at anything. If you’re really good at anything, please apply

Tags: Engineering