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Founding Engineer

Oxus

·

2 days ago

Salary
$150k – $250k/yr
Location
San Francisco, California, US
Type
Full-time
Department
Engineering
Source
Y Combinator

Description

We're looking for our first Founding Engineer to join us. No audit or accounting experience is required.

What you'll do

  • Build agentic workflows that perform complex, multi-step audit tasks
  • Work on retrieval, structured extraction, citations/provenance, OCR, and long-context reasoning across complex documents and messy enterprise data
  • Own and ship features end-to-end, from idea to customers
  • Diagnose issues quickly and ship fixes
  • Proactively identify and suggest product and technical improvements

Your first three months with us

  • Week one: Ship your first feature to production
  • Month one: Own increasingly complex features end-to-end
  • Quarter one: Own a meaningful surface area of the product, proactively identifying improvements and driving solutions from idea to production

Who we're looking for

  • A track record of building and shipping real software, whether through work, internships, startups, or ambitious projects
  • Strong Python and backend engineering skills
  • Significant experience building with Claude, Codex, Cursor, agent SDKs, and other AI tools
  • Moves quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality, with strong judgment about when to investigate further or ask
  • Clear, proactive communicator
  • Comfortable figuring things out without an established playbook
  • Excited to work intensely alongside the founding team: we're an in-person team in San Francisco and typically work 9/9/6

We care much more about what you've built, how you think, and how quickly and efficiently you can execute than checking specific credential boxes.

Strong bonuses

  • Experience with document AI, RAG, OCR, multimodal models, or large-scale document processing
  • Experience building full-stack products 
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and/or distributed systems
  • Built your own products, startups, or technically ambitious side projects
  • Been an early hire at a startup or worked on an early-stage team

Why Oxus

You'll join early enough to have a meaningful impact on the product, architecture, and engineering culture. You'll work on real AI systems used in high-stakes workflows, where outputs need to be accurate, traceable, and reviewer-ready.

We're a close-knit team that works hard, moves quickly, and invests in making the experience fun. Perks include free lunch and dinner, unlimited coffee/matcha/boba, team outings and offsites, and the AI tools you need to do your best work :)

Interview Process

  1. Intro call
  2. Technical interview
  3. In-person work trial
  4. Offer + celebratory dinner with the team

Skills

PythonAWSKubernetes

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