Founding Engineer

Sawa Predictions is helping our friends at flowscope (YC P26) hire their founding engineer. We do the first screen and pass the strongest people straight to the founders; flowscope runs the interviews and makes the offer. Everything below is from flowscope. By applying, you agree that we share your application with flowscope. *About flowscope* flowscope (YC P26) is an AI-native transformation firm that uses agents to map and automate business processes, delivering consulting-level results at a fraction of the cost and time. We're a small, fast-moving team backed by great investors and based in San Francisco. We ship fast, talk to users constantly, and are just getting started. We're looking for engineers who want to own product from day one and help shape the future of how companies run. *Founders* * Samuel Mirpuri, CEO. Former McKinsey (QuantumBlack) consultant; Harvard MBA; MIT satellite engineer; Imperial College aeronautical engineering. * Javier Leguina, CTO. Two-time founder; founding engineer at Model ML (YC W24); ML engineer at Encord (YC W21); MSc Machine Learning, UCL; Imperial College aeronautical engineering. *The Role* You'll be one of our first engineers. You'll work directly with the founders, own major parts of the codebase, and ship product fast. This is true founding-level ownership. You'll shape both the product and the company, working at the intersection of AI, real-world operations, and product. *What You'll Do* * Design, build, and ship features across the full stack * Own core systems and product areas end to end * Work directly with the founders on product and technical direction * Talk to users, iterate quickly, and turn real-world workflows into product * Help set the engineering culture and standards as we grow *Who You Are* * 2+ years of engineering experience * Experience building AI/ML applications, including LLM prompting and tuning * Strong full-stack skills and a strong bias toward shipping * Comfortable with ambiguity and excited to build at the earliest stage * Based in (or relocating to) San Francisco. This is an in-person role *Why Join Us?* * Founding-level ownership and meaningful equity * Direct impact on product direction from day one * Work side-by-side with the founders, in person, in SF * Build the foundation of a company, not maintain someone else's *Compensation* $150K – $220K salary, 0.50% – 1.25% equity. Full-time, in person in San Francisco. US citizen or existing US work visa. *How this works.* Sawa Predictions collects applications for this role on behalf of flowscope and shares them with flowscope. We use your application for this role only and never sell it. Pay: $150,000.00 - $220,000.00 per year Application Question(s): * Have you shipped an LLM-based feature to production? Link to it if public. * GitHub, portfolio, or something you built. Experience: * software engineering: 2 years (Required) Ability to Commute: * San Francisco, CA 94103 (Required) Work Location: In person