Founding AI Engineer

Weave • San Francisco, CA

8h • Onsite

About The Position

Weave (YC W25) is building the definitive platform for understanding and improving how engineering teams work. We believe the way engineering output is measured today is fundamentally broken and that modern AI can give teams a far more accurate and actionable view of productivity, impact and collaboration. Trusted by 150+ customers such as Robinhood, Rho, PostHog and Browserbase, we’ve delivered consistent double-digit month-over-month revenue growth since May and are looking to accelerate our growth. As Weave’s Founding AI Engineer, your job is to build AI to understand and improve the work that software engineers do. You’ll be building our processes and standards as you go to make building every incremental feature easier. Your goal will be to delight customers with intelligence that makes their job 10x easier. We’ve raised a $4.2M seed round and are backed by Moonfire, Burst capital and Y Combinator (W25). This is a rare opportunity to join at the ground floor and shape how millions of engineers and leaders understand engineering work. Weave is rethinking engineering output from first principles. We use AI to: Understand how engineers actually work (not just what they ship) Surface meaningful insights about productivity, quality, collaboration and impact Help teams improve outcomes without vanity metrics or surveillance Our goal is not to optimize for “more output,” but for better engineering.

Requirements

• Formidable engineer who stops at nothing to accomplish goals.
• Pragmatic approach to problem-solving in a startup environment.
• Committed to becoming a great engineer.
• Empathetic understanding of how other people think and why.
• Cares about helping other software engineering teams be great.
• Excellent communicator.
• Gritty, accustomed to picking the hard option and pushing through it.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with React + TypeScript on the frontend.
• Experience with Go on the backend.
• Experience with Python for ML.
• Experience with engineering productivity and how to improve it.
• Passable design sensibilities.

Responsibilities

• Build AI to understand and improve the work that software engineers do.
• Build processes and standards for building incremental features.
• Delight customers with intelligence that makes their job 10x easier.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Early equity
• Health/vision/dental insurance covered
• Free lunch/dinners/snacks
• Yearly team offsite with regular team events
• Yearly $500 learning/development stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed