Founding Engineer

About the company We're a well-capitalized, stealth-stage startup building AI agents that navigate government systems on behalf of everyday Americans. Every year, roughly $140B in federal benefits goes unclaimed. Our mission is to help every adult in America claim what they're owed without fighting through confusing portals and paperwork. The founding team has built and scaled companies before, including through an IPO. The role We're hiring our first engineer: a Founding Engineer / Engineering Lead who owns everything technical from day one. You'll ship v1 yourself, then hire and lead the team as we grow. The founders aren't engineers, so you'll have full autonomy over architecture, stack and tooling. This is a true technical co-founder seat with meaningful equity. What you'll do Build AI agents that reliably navigate real government portals end to end, handling logins, MFA, session management and fragile workflowsShip the first product into users' hands, turning months of research into working softwareDesign the trust and security infrastructure for handling government credentials, SSNs and payment methodsMake the critical technical calls: stack, tooling, architecture and build vs. buyHire and lead engineers #2 through #5 What we're looking for 5+ years of software engineering experience as a strong, hands-on ICExperience building AI agents, browser agents or browser automation (Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, browser-use or similar)Experience shipping LLM-powered products to productionA track record of building secure systems that handle sensitive dataStartup or founding engineer experience taking products from zero to oneEager to learn new technologies and excited to grow into leading a teamNice to have: experience in high-stakes spaces like fintech, healthcare or govtech Compensation and logistics $180K to $250K base salary plus 1% to 2% equityHybrid: 3 to 4 days a week in our San Francisco officeFull-timeMust be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship (US citizen or green card holder)