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Founding AI Engineer

Jobright.ai | San Mateo, California, United States | 2mo ago
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$130,000 – $200,000/yr| full-time | on-site | lead | 1–7 years
skills: python, typescript, backend systems, infra

This role is part of the Jobright TNT - the private hiring network connecting top talent with top AI startups like Perplexity, Mercor, Cresta, Suno and 150 more.

This is not a mass job posting. Only select, high-signal candidates are invited to Jobright TNT and recommended directly to hiring teams

Hiring Company: Shiplight AI

One-liner: Shiplight brings autonomous AI agents to QA so every company can ship at lightspeed with confidence, backed by top investors like Pear VC.

Salary: $130K/yr - $200K/yr

Why Join Us:

Role Responsibilities

  • Build core systems powering next-generation intelligent agent capabilities
  • Rapidly prototype, iterate, and ship production features used by enterprise customers
  • Work directly with founders to shape product, architecture, and culture
  • Collaborate with customers to deeply understand workflows and pain points
  • Explore emerging techniques in reasoning, orchestration, and multi-agent behavior
  • Operate with extreme autonomy — owning projects end-to-end from idea → value

Qualifications

Required

  • 1–7 years of strong engineering experience
  • Fast learner who thrives in ambiguity and loves figuring things out
  • Obsessed with customers — eager to talk to users and ship solutions they rely on
  • Hands-on builder comfortable moving from prototype → production quickly
  • Strong fundamentals across Python, TypeScript, backend systems, or infra
  • Great team player who enjoys collaborating in a high-velocity environment

Preferred

  • Startup experience is strongly preferred

How can I join Jobright TNT:

If this is your first time applying to a Jobright TNT role, the process works as follows:

1. Apply to your first Jobright TNT role

2. We review your background to determine if you meet the TNT quality bar

3. If qualified, your application is directly recommended to the employer

4. Once accepted into TNT, you may be:

- Invited to apply for other exclusive TNT-only roles

- Invited to private, invite-only hiring events with top startups

You will be notified of your TNT selection result.

PS: All Jobright TNT roles are 100% real, directly hired by top AI startups we partner with, and come with priority review and higher response rates than the normal application queue.

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