Raydar
Founding Engineer, AI Platform
$180K–$250K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- 3 to 7 years of full-stack software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent technical degree.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires existing authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
About the job
Build Raydar’s AI platform and customer workflows, from reusable infrastructure and full-stack product surfaces to launch and iteration.
What you'll do
- Lead development of platform primitives for triggers, tools, approvals, memory, observability, and workflow execution.
- Own work from customer discovery through launch and iteration, including full-stack product and backend systems.
- Work with customers and shape the product roadmap, architecture, engineering practices, and culture.
What they ask for
- 3 to 7 years of full-stack software engineering experience in AI-native or fast-moving product environments.
- Clear 0-to-1 experience as a founder, founding engineer, or early engineer at a venture-backed startup.
- Strong backend skills; ability to own work across the full stack; experience shipping AI-powered features into production and familiarity with LLM APIs, RAG, agent orchestration, tool calling, evaluations, or adjacent agent infrastructure.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent technical degree; ability to work from San Francisco approximately three days per week; existing authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Pay
$180,000 to $250,000 USD base salary
Tools
LLM APIs, RAG
AI focus
Build AI platform primitives, agent infrastructure, and AI-powered customer workflows; ship production AI features.
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