Founding Engineer

Brainbase Labs • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

About Brainbase Brainbase is to AI Employees what Retool is to internal tools. We envision a future where every company has an AI workforce working alongside their human team. Brainbase enables businesses to create those AI Employees. In just one year, we’ve grown to $XM+ ARR and are on track to hit $XXM+ next. Our customers range from SMBs to Fortune 50 enterprises. We’re backed by Y Combinator, 500 Global, and other top-tier firms, with participation from the founders of YouTube and HubSpot, as well as leading YC alumni. About the role As part of our founding team, you will have a high agency role in bringing AI to the enterprise: shipping new features, talking to users and shaping company culture for other team members to come. You will work one-on-one with our CEO and founding team to primarily iterate based on customer feedback, help with infrastructure scaling (cloud and on-premise) and improve our underlying proprietary agent system. Who’s a good fit? We think you should apply if the following sounds like you: Resourceful – You’ve been known to get a lot done with very little, whether it is time, money or compute Resilient – You don’t quit when something is difficult, only when you have realized a better way to do it Decisive – You can make informed decisions under stress with incomplete data, and move on to the next task (no hedging) Love difficult problems – You like working at puzzles, chess or anything that you’re not immediately good at Fun – You can smile/joke/enjoy yourself through the pain and the slog, and can lift up others even when things are objectively not going well

Requirements

• In SF, or willing to relocate
• US work permit (we do not currently sponsor H1-Bs, OPTs are fine)
• 2+ years of software engineering experience (new grads encouraged since pet projects count)
• Excellence with Typescript & Python
• Some experience with LLMs (OpenAI API, Langchain, HuggingFace, etc.)
• Demonstration of autonomy and entrepreneurial spirit (side projects, previous companies)

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in AWS, cloud deployment, CI/CD
• Usage of React 19 + Next.js 15
• Experience with ORMs (Prisma, Drizzle, etc)
• Strong foundational understanding of communications protocols (HTTP, WebRTC, WebSockets) and telephony systems
• Experience with micro-service based architecture & building robust, flexible systems
• Machine learning research experience
• Previous startup experience

What This Job Offers

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