Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

Help Build the Future of Autonomous Supply Chain Management

At Burnt, we’re building an AI-native operating system for the food supply chain—replacing legacy ERPs with intelligent agents that automate 80% of the work across sales, operations, credit control, and even ERP implementation. Distributors today are drowning in fragmented data, buried in email and WhatsApp orders, and losing millions to bad debt, frozen inventory, and failed SAP projects. Our agents automate order capture, follow up on overdue invoices, resolve SKU mismatches, and can even compress ERP go-lives from 2 years to 2 months. One of the hardest technical challenges we’re solving is the lack of unified context—food distributors' data is spread across disconnected systems, APIs, PDFs, and spreadsheets. We're building a "truth store" for each enterprise and a swarm of memory-augmented agents to act on it. As a founding engineer, you’ll work across LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent planning, and real-time decision systems—powering the backend of a vertically integrated AI company that deeply understands supply chain workflows. Our stack includes Python, Java (Spring Boot), AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, RDS), Pinecone, and foundation models from OpenAI and Bedrock. If you’re excited to own architectural decisions, ship real-world AI products, and build systems that can change how the $10T+ supply chain industry operates, we’d love to talk.

About burnt

Agentic Operating System for Food Supply Chain

Required skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
JavaScript
Python
Distributed Systems
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Microservices
Data Warehousing
Data Modeling
Figma
Next.js
Prompt Engineering

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Job details

Salary

$125,000 - $250,000

Equity

0.1% - 1.5%

Location

San Francisco, CA

Experience

3+ years

Company

Nameburnt
IndustrySupply Chain and Logistics
Team Size3

Funding

Total raised

$3.8M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

PPenny Jar Capital
Scribble Ventures
FFormation VC

Founders

CS

Chandru Shanmugasundaram

Co-Founder

Rhea Karimpanal

Rhea Karimpanal

LinkedIn
Joseph Jacob

Joseph Jacob

LinkedIn
Chandru Shanumugasundaram

Chandru Shanumugasundaram

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.