🚀 Founding Fullstack Engineer (Frontend Leaning) – AI Agent for Data Science
📍 Location: San Mateo, CA (Hybrid, 2–3 days/week onsite)
💰 Compensation: Up to $230,000 + meaningful equity
🌱 Stage: Seed| ~15-person team | Backed by top-tier VCs
A stealth-stage AI startup based in San Mateo is on a mission to reinvent how data science gets done. Founded by former Uber engineering leaders with a successful exit behind them already, the company is building an AI agent that automates the most time-consuming parts of the data science lifecycle.
Their technology combines generative AI, large-scale optimization, and custom infrastructure to accelerate model development from weeks to minutes – covering everything from data wrangling to model training and production deployment.
The team includes engineers and researchers from OpenAI, Scale AI, Snowflake, Nuro, Mailchimp, Databricks, Cloudera, Google, Facebook, and more – with academic roots at Princeton, Berkeley, and MIT. They’re also backed by two top-tier VC firms and advised by Fei-Fei Li, one of the most respected minds in AI.
The Role – Founding Engineer (Frontend Leaning)
The company is looking for a Founding Engineer to lead the development of their user-facing products – the critical layer between a powerful AI agent and its users. This person will shape the frontend architecture, build developer-facing tools, and influence product direction from day one.
You will:
- Build and iterate on a React + TypeScript WebApp and VSCode extension
- Design and implement agent-driven workflows, chat interfaces, and developer-friendly UIs
- Work closely with a world-class backend and ML team to ship high-impact features
- Own core decisions around architecture, performance, and user experience
- Help create tools that simplify complex ML workflows for technical teams
Ideal Candidate
This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of developer experience, UX, and infrastructure. You may have worked at a BI company, an ML tooling startup, or built internal platforms at a high-growth company – and you care deeply about building elegant interfaces for complex systems.
Preferred Experience:
- Expertise in React + TypeScript
- Experience with VSCode extensions or similar developer tooling
- Familiarity with complex, data-heavy B2B applications
- Built or contributed to meaningful products targeting engineers, analysts, or data scientists
- Bonus: exposure to ML workflows, notebooks, or analytics environments (e.g. Jupyter, Looker)
Benefits
- 💸 Competitive compensation + meaningful equity
- 🏥 Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
- 💼 401(k) plan
- 🖥️ Top-of-the-line Apple equipment
- 🍱 Free lunch in the San Mateo office