# Founding Engineer at Ventura

- Company: Ventura (YC W26)
- What the company does: AI Workforce for Distributors and Manufacturers. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.ventura.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ventura/jobs/SEb1p8Y-founding-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ventura-founding-engineer/

## About the role

Technology is no longer the limiting factor for automating knowledge work. Deployment is. A frontier lab ships a capability, and 18 months later a handful of Fortune 500s have it in production and everyone else has a pilot. The gap isn't model quality. It's that deploying AI into a real business means learning a workflow nobody wrote down, integrating with software from 2003, and hitting a reliability bar the model alone doesn't meet.

## What they're looking for

- Week one: shipped your first feature to a live customer
- Month one: got on a call with a customer, designed and implemented a feature to solve a problem for them
- Quarter one: owning a meaningful surface area of the product, end to end
- Full stack experience: NextJS, TypeScript, Python, Google Cloud
- Understand how to build production-ready agents: context engineering, tool design, evals, …
- Can talk directly with customers, ask good questions, and get to the root of their problems

Tags: Engineering