Founding Engineer, Backend & AI

Role overview As a founding backend and AI engineer, you will shape the services and inference systems behind a suite of product workflows. The work spans the full lifecycle of AI-assisted drafting, from preparing source material to generating validated, attributed outputs, as well as operating the underlying data platform.

Responsibilities - Design an AI inference layer with prompt construction, output validation, source attribution, and data-retention safeguards. - Build and operate a drafting pipeline covering corpus ingestion, voice analysis, generation, and source-grounded citations. - Run a Postgres-based platform on AWS with observability, audit logging, and tenant isolation. - Establish engineering practices for reviews, testing, deployments, and on-call operations. - Document technical trade-offs clearly and help set direction for the engineering team.

Requirements - At least five years of backend engineering experience. - Substantial production experience with Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and Postgres at scale. - Experience shipping production products built on LLM APIs. - Ability to implement output validation, cost controls, and graceful failure handling. - Strong judgment in API design, data modeling, and operational practices. - Clear technical writing skills, including longer design documents.

Benefits and work setup - Full-time founding engineering role, based in Atlanta or remote within the United States. - Base salary range of $180,000–$220,000 plus equity of 1.0–2.0%. - Start timing is flexible, with Q3 2026 preferred. - Visa sponsorship is available for U.S. work authorization transfers, but not new petitions.