Founding Engineer ($180K – $225K + Equity) at a16z-backed autonomous AI app factory

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Job Title

Founding Engineer

Salary

$180K – $225K \+ Equity

Company Description

a16z-backed autonomous AI app factory founded by Google Brain and DeepMind researchers

Job Description

Join a high-velocity team building an autonomous app factory that ships one niche application weekly. As a Founding Engineer, you will build end-to-end production software and automate the underlying engineering pipeline. You’ll work directly with serial founders to scale micro-apps toward $1M ARR using a cutting-edge AI-native stack.

Location:

San Francisco, USA

Why This Role Is Remarkable

• Work directly with an elite founding team of AI researchers from Google Brain and DeepMind who previously scaled a YC company to $60M\+ in transactions.
• Benefit from world-class backing by a16z, Uncork Capital, and YC Partners, alongside angel investors like the founder of Superhuman.
• Shape the future of software by building a system that captures niche markets through compounding AI leverage, owning 100% of the value created.

What You Will Do

• Ship one complete micro-app per week, managing the full lifecycle from ideation and design to production deployment and customer acquisition.
• Extract repeatable patterns from manual development to build automated platform systems for UI, RAG, and cross-promotion.
• Contribute to reaching a $1M ARR milestone on at least one portfolio app within your first year through rapid iteration.

The Ideal Candidate

• 5\+ years of experience building and scaling production-grade software used by thousands of real users in a professional setting.
• Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript, React, Node, Python, and SwiftUI with a bias toward simple, effective architectures.
• Native fluency with AI development tools like Cursor and Claude, treating LLMs as core infrastructure rather than just productivity hacks.

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