Pear VC
Founding Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 47 days ago
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About the role
- You'll be our founding engineer, with an outsized role in how the product, company, and engineering culture evolve.
Responsibilities
- Help close deals by building what matters fast
- Own features end-to-end, from prototype to production
- Own large product surface areas end-to-end
- Drive the reliability and quality bar that enterprise buyers expect
- Opportunity to lead engineering as we scale past our seed round
- Comfortable building across web and desktop (Electron, Tauri, or similar)
Nice to have
- Experience with building browser-based automation tools or developer/enterprise tools.
Skills
- Companies have spent billions on AI tools and tokens.
- Almost none of them can prove it's working.
- 95% of organizations report zero measurable return from their AI investments.
- Not because the tools are bad, but because nobody redesigned the workflows, coached the teams, or measured what actually changed.
- Modo is the AI success layer for the enterprise.
Compensation
- Competitive salary, meaningful early equity, and the chance to grow into an engineering leadership role as we scale.
Company info
- You'll join Johnny Chang https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnny-chang-519b11173/ (Stanford top AI agent research, taught most Stanford AI flagship courses with professors like Andrew Ng) and Angelina You https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelina-huilanyou/ (Meta data science, Stanford MS Eng, product growth at CircleCI) as the founding engineer.
- Product, engineering, and customer work all run through the same room.
- We're backed by One Way Ventures, Pear VC, Peterson Ventures, JFF Ventures, and many more institutional funds and strategic angels.
- Founding team member. Shape culture, product, and technology from the ground up.
- Real ownership. Your code ships to enterprise customers from week one.
- Leadership trajectory. Designed to grow into a leading engineering role.
- In-person around SF. We believe great teams build faster together.
- Competitive pay + early equity. Rewarded for the outsized impact you'll have.
- Your GitHub
- Your Resume
- 2 to 3 links to things you've shipped (projects, products, demos, write-ups)
- A short note on the most impressive thing you've built
- We are a Seed stage startup, raised from One Way Ventures, Pear VC, Peterson Ventures, JFF Ventures, and a strong group of institutional investors and strategic operators.
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