Founding AI Engineer

Weave•San Francisco, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Weave is building a platform to help engineering teams understand and improve how they work. The company uses AI to understand engineers’ work and surface meaningful insights about productivity, quality, collaboration, and impact, with the aim of helping teams achieve better engineering outcomes rather than maximizing output or relying on vanity metrics or surveillance. As Founding AI Engineer, you will build AI that helps software engineers and their teams work more effectively. You will also establish processes and standards that make it easier to build future features, with the goal of delivering intelligence that makes customers’ jobs substantially easier. This is a ground-floor opportunity with ownership from day one on a small, collaborative team. The position is based in San Francisco and requires working in the office five days per week.

Requirements

Be a formidable, determined engineer who can accomplish challenging goals.
Be pragmatic and able to prioritize effectively in a startup environment.
Be a very good engineer committed to becoming a great engineer.
Be empathetic and able to understand how other people think and why.
Care about helping other software engineering teams succeed.
Be an excellent communicator.
Be gritty and willing to choose difficult options and persist through challenges.
Work in the San Francisco office five days per week.

Nice To Haves

Experience with React, TypeScript, Go, or Python; the company uses React and TypeScript on the frontend, Go on the backend, and Python for machine learning.
Prior thinking or experience related to engineering productivity and how to improve it.
Passable design sensibilities.

Responsibilities

Build AI to understand and improve the work software engineers do.
Establish processes and standards that make building future features easier.
Create customer-facing intelligence that helps engineering teams work more effectively.