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Founding Engineer

San Francisco
1

14.ai

Startup
Category
Technical
Experience
8+ years
Type
Full-Time
Location
San Francisco
Job Description
Benefits & Culture
Flexible hours
Remote work
Paid time off
Fast-paced environment
Direct feedback
Growth opportunities
This goes straight to the founder
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85%
Avg Response Time
2 hours
Compensation Calculator
In startups, higher salary usually means lower equity.
Salary (affects equity %)
Link salary ↔ equity
$125,000
$80,000$200,000
Equity % (auto from trade-off model)
0.93%
0%5%
Projected Exit Value
$350,000,000
$10M$500M
Live Trade-off
Salary
Equity %
Est. Equity Value at Exit
$100,000
1.08%
$1,884,167
$125,000
0.93%
$1,636,250
$150,000
0.79%
$1,388,333
$175,000
0.65%
$1,140,417

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Role Overview

As a founding engineer, you will be directly engaging with our customers and will be working with all of our stack, which is: TypeScript, Postgres, Vite, Next.js, and Effect. Topics include: concurrent systems, modular service infrastructure, agent orchestration, text processing, RAG, database optimization, LLM engineering, telemetry, CI/CD, frontend.

Requirements

  1. Strong experience in web technologies, particularly JavaScript/TypeScript.
  2. Strong experience shipping code to production.
  3. Love for building products from 0 to 1.
  4. Desire to be part of a founding team.
  5. Based in SF, or willing to relocate.

Bonus

  1. Experience deploying LLMs to production.
  2. Has previously founded a company or built a high-impact project.