zaimler
Founding Engineer ($180K–$220K + 0.5%–2% Equity) at Fig AI
San Jose
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About the role
- High-impact founding role with 0.5%-2% equity, working directly with a team from Stanford, Instacart, and Bain to disrupt a massive $750B traditional industry.
- Backed by $1.8M from Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and industry leaders at OpenAI and Instacart, providing both strong capital and deep domain expertise.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build end-to-end AI agents using Gemini and Anthropic to automate manual compliance and sales workflows.
- Develop robust backend systems using Kotlin and Spring Boot to ingest and process high volumes of data from legacy ERPs and CRMs.
- Own the full product lifecycle from initial discovery with food manufacturing executives to shipping production-ready features in React and NextJS.
- Company Description: Fig AI - Innovation Endeavors-backed startup building AI agents for the $750B food manufacturing industry.
- Rare opportunity to build the next generation of "knowledge work" agents, moving beyond simple chatbots to agents that execute complex, multi-step industry workflows.
- Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
Requirements
- The ideal candidate:
Compensation
- Salary: $180K–$220K + 0.5%–2% Equity
Benefits
- $180K-$220K + 0.5%-2% Equity
- I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career.
Company info
- Fig AI - Innovation Endeavors-backed startup building AI agents for the $750B food manufacturing industry.
- This is a job that Jill, our AI Recruiter, is recruiting for on behalf of one of our customers.
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