Founding infrastructure engineer
San Francisco
-
Remote OK, office pref.
Around
150k
+
0.5-3%
equity
Infrastructure
AI (but more "anti-AI-abuse")
Brief description
This is a founding engineer role (3rd person) at a seed-stage YC company detecting deepfakes and other AI-generated content. They work with news agencies to identify deepfakes, dating sites to prevent AI-generated catfishing profiles, and law enforcement to determine when abusive material is real or not.
This is a high-autonomy, high-ownership role. As only the third member of the team, you'll be laying the technical foundation for their product, including both the integrations that allow users to submit material for analysis and the infrastructure to support that analysis. The work is mostly greenfield.
As with most startups, expect low structure, high candor, high autonomy, high workload, and an emphasis on product sense and putting user needs first.
This company has a female solo-founder and, currently, an all-female engineering team, if that's something you care a lot about. (This is sufficiently unusual among YC companies for us to mention it, with their consent.)
What they're looking for
[Required]
4+ years experience, including at least 1 in a senior role at a startup
Familiarity with monitoring and observability in an infrastructure context
At least minimal familiarity with AWS
[Nice-to-have]
OK with in-office in the SF Bay Area (strongly preferred, but not hard requirement)
Fluency in Python, since much of their ML is built around it
Full-stack web background / comfort with React and willingness to do some front-end work when needed
A deeper background with AWS
What they're offering
130-170k cash salary, and very substantial equity (0.5-3%)
Important, ethical work. AI enables dozens of new avenues of fraud and predatory behavior, and they're working to stem the tide. That runs from mundane consumer protections to critical questions of where to focus resources on law enforcement teams fighting trafficking and abuse.
A ground-floor, high-impact role
