Syntro
Founding Engineer
$140K–$220K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
About the job
Build and operate Syntro’s procurement platform, turning scattered purchasing information into structured context and reliable agents that help manufacturers manage suppliers and make procurement decisions.
What you'll do
- Design, build, ship, and operate major parts of the product across the stack, including its intelligence layer and agents.
- Make foundational architecture and infrastructure decisions, and establish engineering practices for testing, deployment, observability, and debugging.
- Work with customers to understand procurement workflows and guide technical and product decisions.
What they ask for
- Exceptional engineering ability across the stack.
- Experience designing and shipping complex systems from zero to one.
- Strong judgment about reliability, data correctness, observability, failure modes, and trade-offs.
- Ability to drive ambiguous problems to working systems without waiting for a specification.
Nice to have
- Founded a company or was an early startup engineer; built production AI/agent systems.
- Worked with large amounts of unstructured data or built software for complex operational workflows.
Pay
$140K – $220K USD base salary
AI focus
Build an intelligence layer and reliable agents that structure procurement information, reason over it, and take actions while handling uncertainty, failures, permissions, and human intervention.
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