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Our client is a well-capitalized, venture-backed startup (founded 2025) building an AI platform for the commercial insurance industry. Their product automates the document-heavy workflows that slow insurance professionals down, in a large market that is only beginning to adopt AI. You would be one of the first engineers on a small team, shaping the product from the ground up. Founded 2025 · ~8 people · Industry: AI, Insurance The Role As a founding engineer, you’ll build the AI agents and workflows that power the product and own customer-facing features end-to-end, working closely with the founding team in a fast-moving environment. What you’ll be doing • Build AI agents and workflows for real insurance use cases • Ship customer-facing product features end-to-end • Iterate quickly alongside the founding team in an ambiguous, high-growth setting • Use modern AI coding tools as a core part of your daily workflow Tech stack: Python, React, AI coding tools Requirements • 2 to 5 years of experience as a full stack engineer with exposure to AI-powered applications • A recent track record (within the last 1 to 2 years) of shipping customer-facing products end-to-end • Hands-on, daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar • Experience at an early-stage startup (Seed to Series B) during a high-growth phase • Strong Python skills • A computer science degree or equivalent technical foundation • A language-agnostic mindset, comfortable picking up new tools and switching between languages as needed Nice to Haves • Prior experience in an AI Product Engineer or Applied AI Engineer role • Exposure to React Why Join • A true founding-engineer seat with day-one ownership of product • Ship to real customers immediately in a large, fast-growing market • Well-capitalized and venture-backed, with an experienced founder Details • Location: San Francisco, CA • Work policy: On-site • Compensation: $145,000–$240,000 + equity • Visa sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H-1B transfers) • Employment type: Full-time

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Founded 2025 · ~8 people · Industry: AI, Insurance
As a founding engineer, you’ll build the AI agents and workflows that power the product and own customer-facing features end-to-end, working closely with the founding team in a fast-moving environment.
What you’ll be doing
Build AI agents and workflows for real insurance use cases
Ship customer-facing product features end-to-end
Iterate quickly alongside the founding team in an ambiguous, high-growth setting
Use modern AI coding tools as a core part of your daily workflow
Tech stack: Python, React, AI coding tools
2 to 5 years of experience as a full stack engineer with exposure to AI-powered applications
A recent track record (within the last 1 to 2 years) of shipping customer-facing products end-to-end
Hands-on, daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar
Experience at an early-stage startup (Seed to Series B) during a high-growth phase
Strong Python skills
A computer science degree or equivalent technical foundation

Nice-to-haves

Prior experience in an AI Product Engineer or Applied AI Engineer role
Exposure to React
A true founding-engineer seat with day-one ownership of product
Ship to real customers immediately in a large, fast-growing market
Well-capitalized and venture-backed, with an experienced founder
Location: San Francisco, CA
Work policy: On-site
Compensation: $145,000–$240,000 + equity
Visa sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H-1B transfers)
Employment type: Full-time

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