Founding Engineer at Afore Capital-backed AI cost management startup

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Job Title
AI-Native Founding Engineer
Salary
Not Disclosed
Company Description
Afore Capital-backed AI cost management startup founded by Harvard/Apple alumni with $100M+ exit pedigree
Job Description
Join as the second engineer at a pre-seed startup revolutionizing AI resource management. You will build agentic recipes and load-balancing infrastructure to help enterprises optimize their AI stacks and eliminate surprise billing. This is a high-autonomy, full-stack role for a builder who leverages AI agents to ship production-grade code rapidly.
Location:
San Francisco, USA
Why This Role Is Remarkable

• Founding team includes the former CEO of Retain.ai (acquired) and an Apple alum, offering mentorship from leaders who have scaled revenue from $0 to $100M+.
• Backed by tier-A investors including Afore Capital and strategic angels from OpenAI, Gemini, and Baseten at the forefront of the agentic shift.
• Extreme ownership as the second engineer, defining the core architecture and agentic engineering principles for a platform solving a massive, immediate market pain point.
  

What You Will Do

• Architect and own core platform verticals end-to-end, building agent harnesses and observability tooling using TypeScript, React, and GCP.
• Define how AI agents interact and scale within the product architecture, utilizing agentic engineering principles to enhance system performance.
• Ship production features multiple times a day in a high-velocity environment, moving across frontend, backend, and infrastructure to solve complex technical challenges.
  

The Ideal Candidate

• 3-5+ years of full-stack experience shipping real products, with high fluency in TypeScript, React, and SQL (Postgres).
• An AI-native builder who demonstrates mastery of AI coding agents and LLM tools to multiply their own productivity and code quality.
• A "manager of one" who thrives in a 3-day/week San Francisco office environment, valuing high-proximity collaboration and rapid whiteboard iteration.
  

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