19th May, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site)
Salary: Up to $240k + equity
Industry: AI / Data
What You’ll Drive
As a Founding Software Engineer, you’ll join a mission-driven, hyper-growth AI startup that’s building the industry’s most accurate platform for parsing and extracting data from complex documents and spreadsheets. Backed by $33M from top-tier investors - including Benchmark, First Round, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator - you’ll help architect and scale the ingestion layer that connects human data with LLMs.
Our platform powers pipelines for hundreds of companies, from startups to Fortune 10 enterprises, and processes tens of millions of pages every month. You’ll work directly on our core API and on-prem deployments, shaping the future of how enterprises unlock value from unstructured data.
What You’ll Focus On
- Enhance API design and document pre-processing algorithms (chunking, structured extraction, etc.) based on real customer feedback
- Experiment with new techniques and output structures to improve LLM accuracy and reliability
- Build internal tools and evaluation pipelines to analyze and address failure cases
- Collaborate closely with founders and customers to shape product direction and engineering strategy
- Rapidly iterate and ship improvements across the stack, from backend systems to internal tools
Who You Are - 3+ years of experience building real-world applications, ideally taking products from 0-to-1 in a startup setting
- Strong Python skills and solid understanding of algorithms; able to rapidly build with TypeScript/Next.js
- Experience with or strong interest in ML/AI and document processing; comfortable building your own tools (e.g., Streamlit apps)
- High agency, quality-driven, hands-on, and eager to work directly with customers to iterate based on real-world feedback
- Background at companies with a world-class product culture, as a founder, or with a degree from a top CS program is a plus
Tech Stack: Python, TypeScript, Next.js
Why You’ll Thrive Here - Backed by $33M from leading investors, with rapid growth (0→7 figures ARR in 6 months, 300M+ pages parsed)
- Powering ingestion pipelines for hundreds of companies-including startups and Fortune 10 enterprises
- Join a small, passionate team with direct impact and ownership as an early hire
- No silos: collaborate across product, engineering, and customer success-everyone is involved in everything from roadmap to user feedback
- Benefits include health & wellness stipend, monthly Uber stipend, unlimited PTO, and Doordash stipend
- Build the definitive platform for leveraging unstructured data and shaping the future of AI-powered document processing
- Work on-site in San Francisco with a team that values rapid iteration, customer obsession, and shipping high-quality solutions
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