Founding Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$50k - $200k + equityFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Founding Engineer role at Paragon, the AI Growth Engine for Industrials. Work directly with customers and the founding team to build end-to-end AI agents that automate industrial workflows.
Responsibilities
- Build AI agents for quote intake, order entry, product matching, pricing, inventory checks, and customer/vendor communication.
- Integrate with messy real-world systems: Mainframe ERPs, CRMs, email inboxes, semi-broken APIs, scattered spreadsheets, etc.
- Work directly with users to understand how work actually happens, not how a process doc says it happens.
- Ship full-stack features across backend services, internal tools, customer-facing UI, and data pipelines.
- Build learning loops so agents get more reliable over time.
- Debug production issues in customer environments and turn one-off fixes into reusable product improvements.
Qualifications
- You are technical, completing a CS degree or similar, and love Claude Code/Codex etc with multiple agents running in parallel.
- You like the idea of sitting next to a user and building product on the spot.
- You have built projects using LLMs outside class: startups, hackathons, open-source, research, automation scripts, internal tools. Bonus if it has had some users. Extra bonus if those users yelled at you about something!
- You can explain technical ideas to non-technical people and genuinely have fun doing it.
- You are curious about industries other than tech.
Skills
Required:AI agent developmentFull-stack developmentSystem integrationCustomer-facing collaboration
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Paragon
The AI Growth Engine for Industrials
Paragon is the AI growth engine for distributors and manufacturers, freeing up staff and growing revenue on autopilot.
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