Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer

Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer | AI Startup | 4–7% equity

New York or San Francisco · In person

I’m hiring the first infrastructure engineer for a venture-backed AI startup: someone who wants to set the architecture, build the core systems and help shape the engineering team.

The founder is ex-Google and ex-Spotify , and previously co-founded a YC-backed startup .

Funding is secured and the first customer agreements are signed.

The team is building AI agents to run operations across real-world commerce. The technical challenge is making agents share context, coordinate across departments and reliably complete business workflows.

You’ll own the infrastructure that makes that possible.

You’ll:

• Design and build the core backend and distributed systems.
• Build the shared context and coordination layer connecting business data, workflows and agents.
• Make early architecture decisions across execution, integrations, reliability and compute.
• Work directly with the founder and founding team to bring customer workflows into production.
• Set engineering standards, with scope to recruit and lead the infrastructure team.

I’m looking for strong hands-on backend or distributed systems experience, clear ownership of production systems and the judgment to build from an ambiguous brief.

Competitive compensation, with 4–7% equity being discussed depending on the overall package.

If you want founding-level ownership over the technology and a meaningful stake in the company, message me here or email [email protected] .