Founding Product Engineer
Catalyst Labs3 days ago
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Summary
Catalyst Labs is seeking a Founding Product Engineer to join their team in San Francisco. The role involves leading the development of AI agent products and infrastructure, ensuring reliability and safety in AI deployments.
About the Role
As a Founding Product Engineer, you will be responsible for end-to-end development of AI agent products, building evaluation pipelines to detect failures, designing secure AI systems, and maintaining full-stack systems. You will work closely with the founding team in a fast-paced startup environment, shipping products frequently and iterating based on user feedback.
About You
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1+ years of experience as an AI Software Engineer with active coding responsibilities.
- Proven expertise developing AI agents and LLM-based systems.
- Founding or early-stage startup experience with demonstrated ability to own end-to-end product development.
- Strong understanding of AI evaluation methodologies and deployment reliability standards.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Preferred:
- Evidence of high agency, ownership, and execution velocity.
- Ability to work full-time on-site in San Francisco (5 days a week).
Benefits
- Above market base salary plus bonus and equity.
- Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, high-agency startup environment.
Catalyst Labs
Welcome to Catalyst Labs – Powering Catalytic Growth At Catalyst Labs, catalytic growth isn't just a concept, it's our driving force. Our mission is to help businesses soar to new heights by recruiting exceptional talent. Hiring and recruitment is a long, tedious and a costly process. Your organization's employees are one of THE determining factors whether you will stagnate or grow. We have time and time again made it cheaper, faster and most importantly an exciting process for our clients. Our services are always offered with market insights and with a consultative mind set on streamlining your internal talent processes, so that you have access to the best talent that will help you grow.
Tampa, FL