# Founding Engineer at screenpipe

- Company: screenpipe (YC S26)
- What the company does: Turn your company's computer work into AI agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://screenpipe.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/screenpipe/jobs/hT5zAor-founding-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/screenpipe-founding-engineer/

## About the role

As a founding engineer, you will build both the product and the agent infrastructure we use to operate the company. You will work directly with the founder, use what you build in our own workflows, and turn the useful parts into capabilities other people and companies can rely on. Privacy, permissions, and data handling are part of the engineering work. You should know what an agent can read, what it can change, and when it needs a person to take over.

## What they're looking for

- Agent infrastructure: persistent memory, context retrieval, tool integrations, MCP servers, orchestration, scheduled work, and handoffs between agents and people
- Autonomous workflows that go from an event or goal to a verified result. Make them handle retries, interruptions, changing context, and partial failures without duplicating actions
- Evaluation and observability: traces, reproducible failure cases, regression checks, and feedback loops that improve behavior while preserving permissions and human control
- The core Screenpipe product: desktop capture, local storage, search, APIs, and interfaces that make computer history useful
- Reliability on real machines: debugging crashes, memory and CPU usage, audio problems, and failures that are difficult to reproduce
- Product ownership: talk to users, choose what matters, ship, and check whether the result helped. Keep the code understandable and maintainable as it grows

Tags: Engineering