Founding Engineer

Location:
San Francisco Bay Area
Job Type:
Full-time
Salary:
$180,000–$220,000 /yr
Date Posted:
July 17, 2025

Build the OS for AI-first enterprises

We’re not building another SaaS tool. We’re creating the operating system that helps enterprises adopt AI. We partner with companies to solve their most complex operational challenges by embedding AI across every layer of their organization. Our platform—combined with a team of forward deployed engineers and strategists—delivers intelligent workflows, autonomous agents, and modern internal systems that drive transformative ROI.

 

What You’ll Build

As a founding engineer, you’ll help shape the core infrastructure for AI-native enterprise work:

  • Composable AI agents that operate across tools and functions, capable of managing async workflows, coordinating with humans, and escalating intelligently
  • Enterprise memory graph that combines unstructured content, system metadata, and workflow history into a shared knowledge substrate accessible across agents
  • Multi-agent orchestration layer with secure, role-aware execution logic, allowing AI agents to collaborate, self-correct, and escalate to humans
  • Reinforcement-based agents that learn from outcomes, user feedback, and usage telemetry to improve performance over time
  • Governed, secure interfaces that make AI safe and scalable inside real orgs

These aren’t one-off automations. You’ll build a core platform that unifies fragmented enterprise tools into an intelligent, self-improving system. You’ll operate full-stack, shape system architecture, and ship production-grade software that gets used by real companies in real workflows.

 

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for builders—clear thinkers who turn ideas into working systems.

You might be a fit if you have:

  • 8+ years in software, AI systems, or platform engineering
  • Experience shipping real products—internal tools or client-facing
  • Strength in system architecture and hands-on coding (language agnostic)
  • Practical knowledge of AI workflows, agent coordination, and API design
  • Experience deploying to AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Strong communication across technical and non-technical teams
  • A track record of leading projects and owning architectural decisions

Bonus points for:

  • Building configurable platforms or low-code tools
  • Consulting or client-facing work
  • A degree in CS, AI, or equivalent experience

We value sharp minds, not perfect resumes—if you can build, adapt, and collaborate, let’s talk.

 

Perks & Benefits

  • 💰 $180,000 – $220,000 base salary
  • 📈 Generous equity grant
  • 🏝 Unlimited PTO
  • 🏥 Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 🥗 Lunch, snacks, drinks—fuel provided
  • 🤝 High-trust, low-ego team of real builders

 

We’re an equal opportunity employer.

We hire based on talent, drive, and alignment with our mission—period. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

 

If that sounds like the kind of company you want to build—

📩ryan@cadrian.com

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