Founding Engineer

Terminal

On-site

Palo Alto, CA

Full-time

Staff

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Real job — pulled straight from Terminal’s careers page · Verified September 12, 2026 · No reposts.

Terminal is hiring a Founding Engineer — a full-time, based in Palo Alto, CA role. Apply directly on Terminal's careers page below.

Founding Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Department: Member of Technical Staff

Location Type: IN_OFFICE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

At Terminal, we're building a cloud-native IDE where engineers work alongside always-on AI software engineers - combining the interactive feel of Cursor with the parallelism of Devin. We are building AI software engineers that are proactive and learn from experience.

We are a fully in-person team based in Palo Alto and SF.

The Role

You'll build the core infrastructure and ML models that power Terminal.

This includes..

..architecting our cloud-native development environment
..building seamless integrations with developer tools like GitHub, and Linear
..finetuning models and developing always-on AI agents
..designing systems that continuously learn from users behaviour and experience

You..

..are an excellent problem solver who likes working autonomously
..like tackling challenging problems across the stack (infra, model training, AI agents)
..write high quality code and ship fast
..excel in either AI research or full-stack engineering or both

Company

Our team is a mix of people who have experience in startups and big tech, PhD dropouts, and first-time startup builders. We are ambitious people who love ideating collaboratively, working independently, and learning from each other.

We have raised $8M from First Round Capital, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Terrain, Kearny Jackson, and Parag Agrawal, and are working with many exceptional design partners.

Why Join?

Steer the Vision: Don't just follow a roadmap, define it. You will have ownership over mission-critical parts of our stack.
The Network: Gain direct access to the best operators, capital and network of Silicon Valley (and beyond)
The Learnings: Learn exactly what it takes to scale a venture-backed company from the inside out.

We are looking for builders who think from first principles. If that’s you, the opportunity to make your mark is just below.