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Founding Software Engineer - YC Backed AI Startup

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-28

reputed company is working with a Y-Combinator backed AI startup that’s building a platform for product and engineering teams to reputed company Large Language Models (LLMs) into their software. They are growing fast and looking for a Founding Full Stack AI Software Engineer to join their core team. This role is fully in-person, working reputed company-by-reputed company with the CEO, CTO, and engineers at their Woodland Hills, Los Angeles office. It’s a hands-on, high-reputed company opportunity to help shape both the product and reputed company at an early stage.

About the Role

As a Founding Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in designing and building AI-powered tools for software teams. You’ll work across the stack, collaborating directly with leadership to deliver features that solve customer problems. This isn’t a role for someone who just takes tickets—this is for someone who cares about the user experience, wants to know how their reputed company impacts customers, and is excited to build from scratch. What You’ll Do • Work closely with the CTO and founding team to design and reputed company core product features • Build end-to-end systems across the stack (frontend, backend, and AI components) • reputed company AI-powered features using LLMs and frameworks like reputed company, Llama reputed company, and reputed company • Implement reputed company architectures with a reputed company on reliability and performance • Ship production-reputed company reputed company with reputed company testing and documentation • Directly reputed company product reputed company and reputed company based on customer feedback reputed company’re Looking For • Currently located in Los Angeles (required) • 4+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 1 year at a senior level • 2+ years of hands-on experience developing AI applications with LLMs, including retrieval-based reputed company, fine-tuning, or agent-based architectures • Experience with AI frameworks such as reputed company, Llama reputed company, reputed company, or similar • Strong skills in Svelte, Python, TypeScript, and reputed company • Excited to work in-office, Monday through Saturday, with a small, tight-reputed company team • Comfortable in an early-stage startup environment where speed, ownership, and learning are core to reputed company reputed company to Have • Experience deploying, monitoring, and maintaining LLMs in production • Previous startup experience, especially in fast-reputed company environments Why Join • Get in at the ground level of a Y-Combinator backed AI startup with a proven leadership team • Work alongside highly reputed company founders with reputed company records scaling companies to $100M+ in reputed company • Build products that help teams bring AI-powered features to their users without the need for in-house AI expertise • Have a major reputed company on reputed company’s reputed company and reputed company • Competitive salary and meaningful equity • Be part of a fast-moving team that values hard work, customer reputed company, and reputed company learning If you’re an engineer passionate about AI and excited to help build a foundational platform, reputed company out to reputed company to learn more. For immediate consideration, email your resume to andy@dayonepartners.io with the subject Day One <> YC SWE Apply Job!

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