Founding Software Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, CA (Sawtelle)

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (On-site with remote flexibility on Fridays)

About the Role

Our client is an early-stage AI company with $6 million in seed funding, building the future of customer research. Their platform uses AI agents to create studies, conduct interviews, and extract meaningful insights, enabling teams to understand their customers faster than traditional methods. The founding team consists of product and technical leaders from Reddit, Twitter, and Nextdoor, emphasizing a strong "product-first" philosophy.

They are seeking a Founding Software Engineer to take on significant product ownership. This is a high-agency, full-stack role where you'll contribute to product definition, engineering, and company culture from the ground up.

What You'll Do

Are you driven by the challenge of building liquidity and growth optionality for a scaling global tech company?
Keycafe is seeking a Head of Capital Formation & Ventures to own our capital strategy, drive financing initiatives, and engineer shareholder liquidity and value across our global SaaS/IoT platform and new venture opportunities.

This is a front-line, deal-oriented leadership role — you’ll work directly with the CEO to ensure Keycafe always has the right capital structure, strategic relationships, and liquidity pathways to support rapid global expansion. You’ll also help shape Keycafe Labs, our innovation arm, by structuring and capitalizing new opportunities.

Staff ML Engineer (Semantic Search & RAG Architecture)

Location: New York, NY

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days per week in-office)

About the Role

Our client, is the startup discovery engine used by the world's largest venture capital firms to find and invest in promising founders. They map the startup landscape to ensure hundreds of billions of dollars are routed efficiently. They have raised $30 million in funding.

They are seeking a Staff ML Engineer to lead the development of their core AI features. This is a high-impact role where improvements in ML outcomes directly enable customers to find better investment opportunities, driving innovation globally.

Scope of the Role

Senior Software Engineer (AI Healthcare Communication)

Location: San Francisco, CA

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (4 days/week in-person)

About the Role

Our client is a rapidly growing, well-capitalized healthcare AI company focused on making exceptional healthcare accessible anytime, anywhere. They are building an AI-powered healthcare communication platform that uses voice agents as the first point of contact for medical practices, handling tasks from appointment scheduling to patient triage. The platform has facilitated over 30 million patient interactions and is growing rapidly (10x growth since January 2024).

They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is product-minded and passionate about transforming healthcare accessibility. You will be tasked with building and scaling their customizable fleet of GenAI agents (Assort OS) and working with cutting-edge AI through partnerships with companies like OpenAI and Gemini.

What You'll Do

Senior Software Engineer (AI & Logistics)

Location: San Francisco, CA Employment Type: Full-time Work Arrangement: On-site 5 days a week

About the Role

Our client is an AI startup backed by $17 million in funding that is focused on rebuilding the $1 trillion freight marketplace. They are fixing the slow, manual process of matching trucks with jobs by building a vertical AI agent that automates communication (phone calls, texts, and emails) for freight brokers and forwarders.

As an early Senior Software Engineer, you'll have a high-impact role driving the product's evolution. You'll be bringing AI to the transportation industry, owning product decisions, and shaping the core engineering culture. This is a fit for engineers who are excited about logistics, passionate about AI, and driven by great design and ownership.

What You'll Do

Founding Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (Union Square area)

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: On-site

About the Role

Our client, is an applied AI research lab building high-fidelity agent environments and tooling with the bold thesis of becoming the single global workforce supplier of AI employees for the entire global economy. They are currently focused on conquering the frontiers of planning, memory, and "always-on-behavior" for their agents.

As a Founding Engineer, you will have a high-agency role, working directly with the CEO and founding team. Your contributions will go beyond just code, actively shaping the product, culture, and architecture. You must be prepared to ship fast, experiment, and iterate without heavy process.

What You'll Do

Location: San Francisco, CA

Employment Type: Full-time

On-site: 5 days a week in-office

About the Role

Our client, a high-growth AI company building advanced conversational AI agents for enterprises (with over $231 million in funding and clients like Duolingo and Notion), is seeking a Staff Data Scientist. This role demands deep technical rigor to analyze, test, and apply data across the business.

You'll blend advanced analytical expertise with product acumen to influence strategic decisions at the highest levels, being the primary driver of the experimentation culture.

What You'll Do

Location: San Francisco, CA (Mission District)

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: On-site 5 days per week

About the Role

Our client, Automat, Inc., is a rapidly scaling enterprise AI company with $20 million in funding, focused on redefining Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). Their mission is to make teaching AI agents to build automations as easy as showing a colleague the desired workflow.

They are seeking a product-minded Full-Stack Software Engineer to join their small, early-stage team. This is a high-impact role where your contributions will go beyond code, actively shaping the technical direction and culture. You will be responsible for building the robust, foundational product that supports their complex, large-scale customer deployments.

What You'll Do

Location: New York City

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: On-site in NYC office (regular travel, 30-50%, for client engagements)

About the Role

Our client, an AI startup founded by engineers from institutions like Palantir and Citadel, is building the first AI-augmented deep research platform for the financial services industry. They recently raised $7.25 million from backers including founders of OpenAI and DBT.

As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, you will be the technical architect for their most strategic client relationships at top financial firms. This role embodies the principle of "Forward-Deployed with Product DNA," meaning you embed directly with clients to own their outcomes while simultaneously architecting platform features that serve the entire market. Success is measured by your ability to iterate, deploy, and co-develop competitive advantages in high-stakes research environments.

Key Responsibilities

Director of Engineering

Location: New York, NY

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (NYC only)

About the Role

Our client, a global venture builder that empowers founders to launch and scale transformative healthcare companies, is seeking an ambitious, product-minded Director of Engineering. The client is deeply dedicated to launching AI-native healthcare ventures.

In this senior technical leadership role, you will be responsible for originating, leading, and delivering on critical 0-to-1 agentic development projects across the company. You'll act as a technologist-investor, redefining how AI startups are built in healthcare by leveraging the client's dense repository of healthtech venture knowledge.

What You’ll Do