Founding Engineer
San Francisco, CA$150k - $250kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Founding Engineer role at Paradigm, an AI-native workspace startup based in San Francisco. Full-time, in-person role with focus on building production-grade AI-enabled applications and shaping the product roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Build in a full stack capacity
- Talk to users, track metrics, and iterate quickly
- Scope out and implement core features
- Shape product vision and roadmap
Qualifications
- Willingness to work in-person in San Francisco 5-6 days per week
- Experience building production application layer AI products
- Obsessed with speed and scale
- Ability to work in fast-paced and ambiguous environments
- Insatiably curious and learns quickly
- History of superlative achievement
- Experience with GoLang, TypeScript, NextJS, Redis, RAG systems, and agent architectures is a plus
Skills
Nice to have:GoLangTypeScriptNextJSRedisRAG systemsAgent architectures
Benefits
- (Not explicitly itemized in the description; compensation mentions generous equity grants, health insurance, 401k matching, provided meals, team offsites, and potential signing or relocation bonuses)
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Paradigm
A reimagined workspace with AI at its core
Centered around the primitive of a spreadsheet, Paradigm puts swarms of intelligent agents at your fingertips. The real power of Paradigm comes with scale: imagine having tens of thousands of interns working for you in parallel. Paradigm is 1000x faster than manual data collection, completing an average of 500 cells per minute. Join our waitlist www.paradigmai.com/join
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