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Founding Engineer – Baton AI

San Francisco. Posted 21 months ago

The role

You will design and build core systems including a full-stack web application, API infrastructure, and an AI-driven automation platform. You will work on technical challenges involving AI agents, prompt engineering, and browser automation while collaborating with customers to define the technical roadmap.

What you will do

  • Design and build key parts of our full-stack web application, API infrastructure, and AI-driven automation platform.
  • Work on complex technical challenges involving AI agents, prompt engineering, eval, monitoring, API, and browser automation.
  • Collaborate with early customers and the founding team to define our technical roadmap and deliver features.
  • Prototype, experiment, and ship quickly.

Required qualifications

  • 3+ years of full-stack engineering experience
  • Experience working with React and Typescript
  • Proficiency in modern web application development with React/NextJS and Node.js
  • Experience building rich-text editors or excited to take on that challenge
  • Experience or strong interest in building AI/LLM-powered apps and workflow automation tools
  • Product-minded engineer who cares about clean code and great UX
  • Problem-solver who thrives on breaking down ambiguity and delivering fast
  • Excited to work in person in San Francisco

Nice to have

  • Understanding of Python and Elixir/functional programming

Benefits

  • Founding team impact
  • Customer-first ownership
  • Competitive pay
  • Early equity
  • Work on real AI automation
  • In-person (hybrid) collaboration

About the company

Baton AI is building the enterprise automation platform for cross-application workflows. They are backed by tier-1 VCs.