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About the Role
This is a founding-level engineering role at a seed-stage, YC-backed insurtech startup building AI agents that automate complex claims operations for insurance carriers and TPAs. You'll take true end-to-end ownership of the core platform — from eval pipelines and model reliability to document parsing and agent execution infrastructure — on a small, high-velocity team where your architectural decisions shape the product directly.
What You'll Do
Own entire platform components end-to-end, including evaluation pipelines, model reliability, document parsing, and agent execution infrastructure.
Build and maintain reliability systems: retries, circuit breakers, failover, observability, and canary deployments.
Design and ship an eval platform that catches regressions before customers encounter them, including per-run evals and automated regression detection.
Collaborate closely with forward-deployed engineers to rapidly spec, build, and ship solutions driven by real customer pain points.
Shape developer platform tooling, CI/CD workflows, and coding agent integrations to increase team velocity.
What We're Looking For
4+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years owning a core platform component end-to-end at a VC-backed startup with measurable business outcomes.
TypeScript and SQL as primary production languages — must be clearly evidenced on resume or public profile.
Hands-on AWS experience in a production environment; familiarity with GCP is a plus.
Proven backend expertise: REST APIs, PostgreSQL, vector databases, Docker, and system architecture.
Experience in a regulated or security-sensitive domain (insurtech, fintech, or healthtech) where auditability and traceability were hard requirements.
A public engineering artifact (GitHub repository, personal technical site, or published technical content) demonstrating genuine interest beyond day-to-day employment.
Technical degree (Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent).
Nice to have: experience shipping AI/LLM agent infrastructure (tool orchestration, eval pipelines, session lifecycle); background in voice AI, insurance platforms, or fintech; product engineering or PM experience; early-stage startup or founding experience.
US work authorization required; visa sponsorship is not available.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: $165,000 – $270,000 USD annually
Equity participation expected at founding-engineer level
Visa sponsorship: not available
Location
On-site in Los Angeles, CA (also open to New York, NY or San Francisco, CA). Remote work is not available for this role.
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