Startups · AI

Founding Engineer

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

← All jobs
About Soren

The AI workforce for business operations. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

You'll work directly with customers to understand how they operate, identify high-impact opportunities for AI, and build production systems that solve meaningful business problems. You'll own customer engagements end-to-end, from discovery and solution design to implementation, deployment, and ongoing iteration.

What they're looking for

  • Build, deploy, and maintain production AI agents and intelligent software systems
  • Translate ambiguous customer problems into reliable, production-ready solutions
  • Design and implement backend and full-stack applications using modern technologies
  • Integrate with customer software, APIs, databases, and enterprise systems
  • Prototype quickly, iterate with customers, and continuously improve deployed systems
  • Own reliability, security, and performance across customer deployments
More about this role

We're hiring our first Founding Engineer.

As an early engineer, you'll have significant ownership over the products you build, the technical direction of the company, and the impact those products have on customers.

Everything you build will be used by real organizations solving real problems. You'll work across the entire engineering stack, from product design and AI systems to backend infrastructure, integrations, and deployment.

We're a small, fast-moving team. We learn quickly, ship quickly, and continuously adapt based on customer feedback. If you're excited by ambiguity, ownership, and building products that matter, you'll feel at home here.

You'll work directly with customers to understand how they operate, identify high-impact opportunities for AI, and build production systems that solve meaningful business problems.

You'll own customer engagements end-to-end, from discovery and solution design to implementation, deployment, and ongoing iteration.

Beyond client work, you'll help improve Soren itself by building internal tooling, automating workflows, and refining the systems that allow us to deliver increasingly powerful solutions to every customer.

  • Build, deploy, and...

Read the full posting on Soren's site ↗

Engineering

Build your edge while you search

Free tools for founders and investors, plus VC Unfiltered, our take on startups, venture and the people who build them.