Founding Engineer Intern

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

A fast-growing, pre-seed AI startup in the talent acquisition and HR tech space is looking for a Founding Engineer Intern to help build and ship features daily alongside the CTO. The company is building a fully agentic system to automate the headhunting process end-to-end — connecting top talent directly with founders and hiring managers, bypassing traditional job applications entirely.

This is a high-ownership, high-velocity role in a founder-driven culture. You'll work in a hacker-house / remote-forward setup and have direct, measurable impact on the core product from day one.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship end-to-end features to production on a daily cadence.

• Collaborate closely with the CTO and founding team, owning components from ideation through deployment.

• Develop and iterate on a fully agentic system that automates headhunting end-to-end.

• Engage directly with users to measure impact on hiring speed and experience.

• Contribute to a fast, high-output, low-ego engineering culture.

• Work in a hacker-house setup, including potential stints in LatAm locations.

What We're Looking For

Required:

• At least 6 months of hands-on experience with React and TypeScript.

• Experience with Cursor, Supabase, Prisma, and Typesense in a production React/TypeScript stack.

• Full-stack profile — not primarily an ML engineer and not heavily siloed in a single language (e.g., Python, C++).

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to take features from ideation all the way to production.

• Background in or demonstrated experience with entrepreneurial, fast-moving, "hacky" environments.

• Currently enrolled in or pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Something outstanding on your profile — top GPA, strong university, notable projects, or an active GitHub.

• Open to working in hacker houses in Latin America.

• Willing to work 7 days per week.

Nice to Have:

• Portfolio or sample projects demonstrating full-stack development and open-source contributions.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation details have not been specified for this role. Equity and/or stipend may be discussed during the interview process. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

This is an on-site role based in San Francisco, CA, with a hacker-house culture that may include working sessions in Latin America. The team operates in a high-intensity, in-person-forward environment.