Founding Engineer at HeaviAI

Location: San Francisco

Department: Heavi ai

Location Type: HYBRID

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

About the Role

What you’ll do:

• Work directly with customers to understand problems and ship solutions fast.
• Own entire features end-to-end. UX, design, context engineering, evals, schema.
• Help shape engineering culture, practices, and team norms from day one.
• Collaborate with us on product and business decisions (this isn’t a back-seat role).
• Work with our Head of Parts Intelligence to encode tacit repair knowledge into tokens for the AI.

You’re the right person for the job if you:

• Are sharp, scrappy, and thrive in ambiguity.
• Are excited to immerse yourself in a historically overlooked space (a character building one that you’ll want to talk about at dinner parties).
• Enjoy talking to blue collar folks, and respect the embodied knowledge they have earned.
• Have founded a startup yourself before, or want to in the future.
• Want to work on real-world problems that impact real people, not massive corporations.
• Have experience (or strong interest) with voice AI (Pipecat, Vapi), AI agents (Browserbase, Vercel AI SDK), or multimodal AI reasoning.
• [bonus] You know how an engine works! Or, you want to learn.

The Team