Founding Product Engineer (Systems & UX)

Candid Intelligence • San Francisco, CA

42d

About The Position

Candid is building the software that industrial engineers use to run and review pre-construction workflows for compute and energy infrastructure.
These tools support decisions that cost millions of dollars, so they need to be fast, inspectable, and safe to use in production.

Nice To Haves

• Opinionated about UX, interaction design, and system boundaries
• Keeps components modular and APIs clean
• Cringes at clunky UIs or inefficient backend queries
• Has good intuition for how humans should interact with complex systems
• Cares about building tools that feel polished, calm, and serious
• Built complex, interactive web products (editors, internal tools, canvases)
• Early or founding engineer at a YC-backed company
• Experience shipping production software used by technical users
• Technical founder at a VC-backed startup

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality React/TypeScript interfaces for viewing, editing, and overriding AI-generated workflows.
• Design backend systems that support secure execution, stateful workflows, and large-scale document ingestion.
• Build feedback loops that turn user interactions into structured signals for improving the AI.
• Own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.

What This Job Offers

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