Founding Product Engineer

  • San Francisco, California, United States
  • Full-Time
  • On-Site
  • 150,000-275,000 USD / Year

Job Description:

San Francisco, CA · On-site · Full-time Compensation: $150,000–$275,000 + 0.5%–1.0% equity

About the Company

Our client is a pre-seed, design-obsessed startup building an AI-native outbound sales platform — replacing the SDR-and-GTM-engineer stack teams cobble together today from a handful of point tools and a few engineers gluing it together. In its first few months it has grown past $80K MRR, with 50+ venture-backed startups and a growing roster of post–Series A companies running outbound on the platform. It's a small, dense team where the bar for engineering taste, product instinct, and aesthetic quality is very high.

Founded 2025 · 1–10 people (Pre-seed) · Industry: AI Tools

The Role

As a Founding Product Engineer, you'll own the surfaces customers — founders, GTM leaders, sales engineers — live in every day, making a system-of-action that sits on top of every GTM data source (CRMs, enrichment APIs, professional networks, intent signals, website-visitor data) feel like one beautifully designed product rather than a plumbing project.

Tech stack: Next.js, React, Python, FastAPI, Supabase.

Requirements

  • 0–4 years of engineering experience; new grads welcome
  • A quantitative or technical background (data science, CS, industrial engineering, or operations)
  • Comfort communicating with customers and bridging technical and non-technical
  • Full-stack ability across the modern JS/Python stack (Next.js, React, Python, Supabase)
  • A product and operations instinct
  • On-site in San Francisco five days a week

Nice to Haves

  • Prior founder, founding-engineer, or first-few-hire experience at an early-stage startup
  • Engineering taste demonstrated through shipped products at a Linear / Attio / Raycast / Vercel-caliber quality bar
  • A power user of GTM tools (Apollo, Outreach, Clay, Attio, HubSpot) who has actually run outbound, not just built features for sales teams
  • A strong academic background paired with real startup ownership
  • A public portfolio — shipped side projects, an active GitHub showing fast iteration, or writing on product engineering / AI agent UIs

Why Join

  • Founding-level ownership: work directly with the founders, ship to production weekly, and shape what the product becomes
  • Real traction, early: $80K+ MRR in the first few months, 50+ customers, targeting $10M ARR
  • A design-obsessed bar: "Linear-quality B2B SaaS" is the explicit standard
  • Comp and perks: strong base and equity, free lunch and dinner, transport to and from the office, health insurance, and equipment

Details

  • Location — San Francisco, CA
  • Work policy — On-site, 5 days/week
  • Compensation — $150,000–$275,000 + 0.5%–1.0% equity
  • Visa sponsorship — Not available; US citizen or existing work visa required
  • Employment type — Full-time