Founding Engineer

Job Description

**About:**

We're hiring a Founding Engineer to help build us a new product from the ground up. We want someone who can take a design doc and a direction and ship it fast and bug-free, with little supervision. The best fit is someone genuinely into personal AI assistants.

**The role:**

* **Ship features end to end**- from a design doc and a direction, with little back-and-forth.
* **Build the agent** - tool calling, browser automation, email and message parsing, and memory.
* **Own the backend** - data models, services, integrations and deployment.
* **Move fast** - pragmatic architecture and tech debt are fine. Bugs, or a UX that falls short of what was asked for, are not.

**What we're looking for:**

The bar is high: we're looking for people who are a clear "hell yeah." A "maybe" is a no.

* **Agency** - give you a goal and you go. You unblock yourself and come back with something that works.
* **Agent/Harness engineering** - you've built the system around the model, not just called its API: tool calling, memory, context management, and keeping an agent reliable across long, multi-step tasks.
* **Bias toward shipping**- fast and bug-free, even if the code underneath is scrappy.
* **Strong Bonus:**A revealed interest in personal AI assistants - shown by your website, projects or work history, not just what you say.

**Bonus:** you've built your own assistant, or worked with OpenClaw or Hermes (or built your own version of one).

**Example projects:**

The kind of thing that would make your application stand out:

* A personal assistant on WhatsApp, Telegram or iMessage that reads your email and calendar and texts you first.
* A fork of OpenClaw or Hermes with skills you wrote, or your own agent built from scratch with tool calling and memory.
* A browser agent that does a real chore end to end, like finding products and filling a shopping cart.