Founding Engineer Intern

About the Role

Join a fast-growing AI-powered talent marketplace startup that is reimagining how top candidates connect with their next opportunity. As a Founding Engineer Intern, you'll work directly alongside the CTO to ship features daily and help build a fully agentic system that automates headhunting end-to-end. This role puts you at the heart of rapid experimentation, with real ownership and high-impact outcomes - including time spent working in hacker-house environments in Latin America.

What You'll Do

Build and ship features daily alongside the CTO to automate the headhunting process end-to-end.

Own full end-to-end development - from ideation through to production - for core product features.

Collaborate with the founding team to design and ship components of an agentic AI system.

Talk directly to users and measure impact on hiring speed to drive iteration.

Thrive in a founder-paced, high-output environment with tight daily feedback loops.

What We're Looking For

Required:

At least 6 months of hands-on experience with React and TypeScript in a production environment.

Experience with Cursor, Supabase, Prisma, and Typesense in a production React/TypeScript stack.

Strong full-stack profile - not an ML engineer and not overly specialized in a single language (e.g. Python or C++).

Strong ownership mindset: ability to own features end-to-end from ideation to production.

Experience working in entrepreneurial, fast-moving, "hacky" environments.

Currently enrolled in or actively pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Something outstanding about your profile - strong projects, active GitHub, top academic record, or similar.

Willingness to work 7 days/week and openness to hacker-house arrangements in Latin America.

Nice to Have:

Portfolio or sample projects demonstrating full-stack development and/or open-source contributions.

Compensation & Benefits

Internship role with direct mentorship from founding engineering leadership.

Hands-on experience at a well-funded pre-seed AI startup with real product ownership from day one.

Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

This is an on-site role based in San Francisco, CA. Candidates should also be open to periodic hacker-house arrangements in Latin America as part of the team's working culture.