Founding Engineer

About The Role

This is a founding engineer role on a small, high-conviction infrastructure team building a graph-native context and memory platform purpose-built for AI agents. You'll own significant pieces of the core — query engine, graph storage internals, distributed systems — and make architecture decisions that shape the product for years to come. This is not a feature factory; every engineer here has direct influence on the architecture, the roadmap, and the culture.

What You'll Do

• Own and ship core infrastructure spanning query execution, the graph storage layer, and distributed systems.
• Make architecture decisions with long-term product impact alongside the founding team.
• Contribute to benchmark and research work that defines the category.
• Participate in architecture reviews and navigate hard technical trade-offs with real production consequences.
• Help raise the technical ceiling as the team grows.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience with strong CS fundamentals — the kind where you reason from first principles.
• Proficiency in Rust or Go, with hands-on experience building distributed systems (dealbreaker).
• Experience designing and shipping core infrastructure components — query engines, storage layers, or graph internals — in a production environment (dealbreaker).
• Comfort owning large, ambiguous problems without a playbook and an ownership mindset that extends to design docs and architecture decisions.
• Track record of shipping production systems under real load.

Nice to have

• Experience building or scaling databases or storage infrastructure.
• Open-source contributions in systems-level projects.
• Prior founding engineer or early-stage infrastructure background.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $160,000 – $270,000 USD annually, plus meaningful equity. Learning budget, flexible PTO, and wellness perks included. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, CA, United States.