Founding Engineer Intern

About the Role

Join a fast-growing, pre-seed AI startup that is reimagining how top talent connects with startup opportunities. As a Founding Engineer Intern, you'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the CTO and founding team to build and ship production features every day — helping automate an end-to-end, fully agentic headhunting platform. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role for a builder who thrives in scrappy, fast-moving environments.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship end-to-end features to production on a daily cadence.

• Collaborate closely with the CTO and founding team to own components from ideation to deployment.

• Develop and iterate on a fully agentic system designed to automate the headhunting process end-to-end.

• Engage directly with users to measure impact on hiring speed and experience.

• Contribute to a fast, high-output, low-ego engineering culture.

• Work in a hacker-house or remote-forward setup with a strong ownership mindset.

What We're Looking For

Required (Dealbreakers):

• 6+ months of professional or project-based experience building production features in TypeScript and React.

• Full-stack development focus with demonstrated ability to build and ship end-to-end features; not primarily an ML engineer or heavily specialized in a single language (e.g., Python, C++).

• Currently enrolled in or pursuing a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Portfolio or GitHub demonstrating full-stack development and open-source contributions.

• Production experience with Supabase, Prisma, and Typesense in a React/TypeScript stack.

• Experience with Cursor as a development tool.

• Standout credentials or projects — strong GPA, notable university, active GitHub, or recognized side projects.

• Experience working in entrepreneurial or early-stage environments with rapid iteration and shipping cadence.

• Strong ownership mindset: ability to take a feature from idea to production independently.

Nice to Have:

• Willingness to work 7 days per week during the internship.

• Openness to working in hacker-houses in Latin America.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation details were not specified for this role. This is an internship position at a pre-seed AI startup in the HR tech / talent acquisition space. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Primary location: San Francisco, CA, United States. The team operates in a hybrid/hacker-house model with a remote-forward culture. On-site presence in San Francisco is expected.