Founding Engineer
$150k - $250k • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 7mo ago
Job Location
San Francisco
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
AgentMail is building an API designed to give inboxes to AI agents and be the sole identity and communication provider. We are seeking a founding engineer with strong backend and infrastructure instincts to help build the core primitives that AI agents will use to communicate, authenticate, and operate in the real world. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys systems work, including APIs, distributed infrastructure, reliability, and developer tooling, and wants to own projects end-to-end from system design to production rollout.
Responsibilities
- Design APIs and abstractions intuitive for both humans and AI Agents.
- Build high-performance, low-latency systems with AI agents as the end-users.
- Work with core infrastructure processing hundreds of thousands of emails daily.
- Bridge cutting-edge AI capabilities with email primitives.
- Own projects end-to-end, from system design to production rollout.
- Write clear, maintainable code and strong technical documentation.
- Act as the frontline for customer feedback and represent the company externally.
Requirements
- Ability to solve problems end-to-end, making decisions across frontend, infrastructure, backend, and UX.
- High bar for quality and attention to detail.
- Clear thinking and communication skills.
- Highly technical with prior experience shipping production software as a software engineer.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer tools (preferred).
- Experience with messaging, email, auth, or protocol-heavy systems (preferred).
- Experience building for AI/LLM use cases (preferred).
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Equinox memberships
- Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Doordash)