Founding Engineer

burnt
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 125,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Entrepreneurship & Venture BuildingExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Collaboration"]

Founding Engineer at Burnt, building an AI-native operating system for the food supply chain. You’ll own architectural decisions and ship real-world AI products, working across LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent planning, and real-time decision systems to power the backend of a vertically integrated AI company.

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burnt
burnt
1 year ago

Founding Engineer

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Job Summary

Founding Engineer at Burnt, building an AI-native operating system for the food supply chain. You’ll own architectural decisions and ship real-world AI products, working across LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent planning, and real-time decision systems to power the backend of a vertically integrated AI company.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Entrepreneurship & Venture Building

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own architectural decisions and ship backend AI systems for an AI-native operating system for the food supply chain.
  • •Develop and optimize workflows involving LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-agent planning.
  • •Build real-time decision systems that power end-to-end supply chain processes from sales to ERP integration.
  • •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data from disconnected sources (APIs, PDFs, spreadsheets).
  • •Contribute to the design and deployment of scalable, memory-augmented agent platforms on AWS.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 125,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Must have strong experience with Python and Java (Spring Boot) in production systems.
  • •Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, RDS).
  • •Familiarity with AI/ML workflows, including LLM orchestration and retrieval-augmented generation.
  • •Comfort with architecture decisions and shipping real-world AI products at scale.
  • •Ability to work across cross-functional teams to implement end-to-end AI solutions.
Experience:3+ yearsAISupply chainSaaS
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationCollaboration
Tech Stack:PythonJavaSpring BootAWSPineconeOpenAIBedrockLLM orchestrationDL/ML

Eligibility

Visa:US citizen/visa only
Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

burnt
Provides an AI-powered platform to automate creative production, enabling brands and marketing teams to generate, edit, and scale visual and video content for campaigns and social channels efficiently.
Industry: SaaS
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