Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

The Role:

You will work directly with the founders on the core product and in shaping the future roadmap. You’ll have significant ownership and make foundational technical decisions. This role is a fit for you if you’re looking to wear many hats and are excited about our mission to define the infra layer for agent evaluation.

What you will do:

  • Design and build the core platform and infrastructure to define, run, and extract insights from agent simulations.
  • Define the ideal user experience for the product and continue to shape it as it evolves. Critical and out-of-the-box thinking encouraged.
  • Work closely with customers to onboard them, provide continuous support, and collect feedback.

Signs you might thrive in this role:

  • Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science or related field.
  • Passionate about building category-defining products.
  • Demonstrated experience working on LLM-systems and infra (optional but great to have).
  • Strong background in systems and infrastructure.
  • Enjoy owning, scoping, developing, and maintaining features end-to-end.
  • Confidently navigates through ambiguity and thoughtfully considers tradeoffs and design decisions.

About Panoptive

We turn unstructured monitoring data - monitoring visit reports, EDC data - into structured deviation, safety, and quality findings for human review. Panoptive generates an audit-ready oversight trail as a natural byproduct.

The platform aggregates findings and identifies systemic patterns across sites and subjects before they compound, and tracks every finding through decision, follow-up, and resolution.

Required skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Python
React
TypeScript
SQL
Linux
Distributed Systems
Machine Learning
Reinforcement learning (RL)
Docker

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Job details

Salary

$160,000 - $350,000

Equity

0.5% - 2%

Location

San Francisco, CA

Experience

0+ years

Company

NamePanoptive
IndustryB2B
Team Size2

Funding

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Youssef Kallel

Youssef Kallel

Founder

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.