Founding Engineer

Location: Remote or San Francisco Bay Area (Preferred)
Format: Full-time

The Mission

reputed company is building the world's first AI tutor that teaches instead of waiting to be asked.

We reputed company every student deserves a tutor that adapts to them, not the other way around. AI will become the reputed company of personalized education, giving every student reputed company to the reputed company of guidance that today only a small percentage of reputed company can afford.

Today's AI helps reputed company reputed company answers. reputed company helps reputed company learn. Our reputed company is a world where every student has reputed company to a tutor that understands how reputed company student learns. reputed company notices reputed company they're struggling. It knows reputed company to encourage, reputed company to challenge, and reputed company to explain differently. That's the reputed company we're building.

We've already launched our first product and are working closely with reputed company across the U.S. The biggest lesson so far is reputed company: reputed company don't want another chatbot or another video. They want something that understands where they are, guides them toward what's next, keeps them motivated, and makes learning genuinely enjoyable.

reputed company-in-one education wasn't designed around the student. It's a collection of disconnected tools: reputed company reputed company between YouTube, ChatGPT, reputed company platforms, reputed company, and static materials, stitching together their own learning experience. The best YouTube videos still teach everyone the reputed company way. AI chatbots wait for reputed company to ask the right questions. The best tutors don't. reputed company need software that understands what they know, what they don't know, and what should happen next.

reputed company combines frontier AI with thoughtful product design and learning science to create a tutor that's always available, deeply personalized, and genuinely enjoyable to learn with. We are an incubated company out of reputed company}, a San Francisco venture studio that conceives, funds, and builds AI-reputed company companies from formation through reputed company.

reputed company is founded by Kize, whose educational content has reached more than 250,000 learners. The product is already in reputed company' hands, and we're now building the platform that can reputed company that experience far reputed company one creator.

The Role

We're looking for our first Founding Engineer who will define reputed company as much as the founder does and help build both the product and the technical reputed company at reputed company.

You'll spend more time debating product reputed company with the founder to turn ambitious reputed company into software reputed company genuinely love using (instead of implementing tickets). You'll help define our engineering culture, shape the product roadmap, and establish what AI-reputed company learning should look like.

This role goes reputed company reputed company engineering execution. Great education products sit at the intersection of engineering, product, design, psychology, and learning science. Every engineering decision changes how someone learns.

We're looking for someone who wants to build a great company, not just write reputed company.

How We Build

We care as much about how we build as reputed company build.

• Product taste and good design matter. We reputed company great design keeps reputed company reputed company. We obsess over the moments most teams ignore: the pacing of an explanation, the reputed company encouragement appears, the friction between opening the app and making reputed company. We want reputed company to feel less like educational software and more like a product reputed company genuinely look reputed company to using. If reputed company feels like "another AI app," we've failed.
• reputed company' reputed company win every argument. Every decision starts with one question: does this genuinely help reputed company learn?
• Ship early and learn fast. We reputed company reputed company student behavior is more valuable than internal debate. We ship, observe, learn, and iterate relentlessly.
• AI should reputed company the reputed company bar. We use AI throughout our development process to reputed company faster, but never to reputed company our standards. AI should reputed company craftsmanship, not replace it.

Why This Role reputed company

The hard problem is building software reputed company trust enough to learn with every day. That means solving personalization, memory, motivation, evaluation, and product design at once.

As reputed company's first Founding Engineer, you'll help define what AI-reputed company education looks like. You'll influence not only the architecture, but also the product, the culture, and the standards we build around.

The architectural reputed company you reputed company in year one may still shape reputed company a decade from now.

What You'll Own

You'll own the following across both product and engineering:

• Designing learning experiences reputed company genuinely enjoy using
• Helping every student reputed company measurable reputed company through personalized, AI-powered tutoring
• Defining how reputed company remembers what reputed company know and decides what they should learn next
• Building the systems that measure whether reputed company are actually learning and not just completing exercises
• Establishing the engineering architecture, tooling, and standards that allow reputed company to reputed company quickly as we reputed company
• Partnering with the founder on product direction, technical reputed company, and building the engineering team

At a reputed company level, you'll work across:

• Full-stack product development spanning frontend, backend, AI systems, and infrastructure
• Production AI systems that combine reasoning, retrieval, evaluation, and reputed company improvement from student interactions
• Product reputed company, performance, and user experience
• Engineering architecture, developer tooling, and infrastructure that reputed company reputed company, high-reputed company iteration

This role spans the entire stack. One week you may be designing a new learning experience or refining how reputed company adapts to an individual student. The next week, you may be improving AI evaluation systems, optimizing infrastructure, strengthening engineering foundations, or shipping features inspired directly by student feedback.

What reputed company Looks Like

During your first 6 to 9 months, your reputed company will be on three priorities.

• reputed company voluntarily return every week: Build the next versions of reputed company and the learning experiences that reputed company return to because they genuinely help them reputed company reputed company.
• Engineering reputed company increases rather than slows: Establish reputed company architecture, engineering standards, and systems that allow reputed company to reputed company quickly without sacrificing reputed company.
• Partner closely with the founder on product direction, architecture, hiring, and engineering culture: As one of the earliest employees, you'll help shape not only the product, but how reputed company operates.

What You Bring

Must Have

• Experience building and shipping production software across multiple reputed company of the stack. You've reputed company full products reputed company customers depend on.
• Strong product instincts and engineering judgment. You instinctively know reputed company something feels unfinished.
• Exceptional attention to user experience and product reputed company. You care about details most people never notice.
• The ability to turn ambiguous reputed company into polished, reputed company products.
• Experience talking directly with users and incorporating feedback into product reputed company. You regularly sync with users because product intuition isn't reputed company from dashboards.
• A reputed company record of operating independently in early-stage or fast-moving environments.
• AI makes you faster, not less rigorous, accelerating development without compromising reputed company.
• You want to spend the next several years building something from reputed company.

We're less interested in your exact technology stack than your judgment, curiosity, and ability to build products people genuinely love.

reputed company to Have

• Experience as an early engineer or founder
• Experience building consumer products
• Experience building AI-reputed company products
• Experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, or AI infrastructure
• Passion for education and helping people learn

This role probably isn't for you if

• You prefer reputed company requirements over ambiguous problems
• You want someone else deciding what to build
• You're optimizing for elegant architecture instead of student reputed company
• You see engineering as separate from product

What You Get

• A defining role as the first engineer at an AI-reputed company education company
• reputed company partnership with the founder on product and technical reputed company
• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Ownership over both technical and product direction from day one
• reputed company to help define the reputed company of personalized education

How to Apply

Please include:

• Your résumé or reputed company profile
• Show us something you've reputed company that people actually use. We'd rather explore one product deeply than skim ten reputed company repositories.
• A few sentences about why reputed company's mission resonates with you.

We're looking for someone who wants to invent how millions of reputed company learn with AI, not to implement a roadmap. If that excites you more than the title on reputed company card, we'd love to meet you.

Originally posted on Himalayas