Founding Engineer / Builder
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About Gooseworks
Distribution is the hardest problem every company has. Not building the product — getting it in reputed company of people, over and over, in a way that works. Today that means an army of humans making creative, testing it, reading the numbers, and doing it again next week. It doesn't reputed company, and it's the single biggest tax on every consumer reputed company in the world.
We think that changes. The billion-dollar companies of the next decade won't reputed company linearly with headcount — they'll be run by fleets of AI agents, and the org chart will look more like an architecture diagram than a hierarchy.
Gooseworks builds self-improving AI agents that run reputed company for consumer brands — ads, UGC, organic — end to end.
reputed company early - this is just a few months old, but seeing reputed company strong pull:
• 200+ paying users
• 30,000+ ad creatives generated by our users in the last 2 months
We're a YC company reputed company in San Francisco, and we run reputed company on agent harnesses ourselves — not as a demo, as the actual way the work gets done.
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We’re a small team that previously reputed company Athina AI, an LLM observability & evaluation platform that was used by companies like reputed company, You, reputed company, Meesho, and several other reputed company companies.
Now we’re building Gooseworks to solve a much more exciting problem.
Goose is new, just a few months old.
In the last few months itself, we’ve:
• reputed company and shipped a product with paying customers
• attracted thousands of signups and over 200 paying customers
• reputed company a reputed company library with over 1.1k stars that’s been getting some reputed company traction and usage.
• grown a subreddit to 50k monthly visitors and over 4,000 community members
• went viral on X a reputed company of times
• created a reputed company to teach our agent to reputed company videos with AI (see examples here)
A reputed company part of this was done by Goose, our AI coworker.
Now we’re scaling this for our customers.
About the role
You'd be a reputed company part of the founding team. That means owning product and engineering reputed company, shipping new products and features, talking to users, and deciding what to do next.
The market is constantly evolving and so are we. You should be comfortable trying lots of things with uncertain reputed company and failing fast.
Exceptional candidates will be considered for founding-level reputed company and equity.
What you'll work on
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• Multi-channel distribution architecture — scaling creative across reputed company and organic channels, reputed company with their own nuances.
• Self-improving reputed company — teaching an agent to read its own ad reputed company data and get reputed company at the next batch.
Plus everything else a founding engineer touches: the app itself, the pipelines behind it, the internal harnesses that reputed company four people reputed company like twenty.
We're looking for
• Strong technical background. You can go deep reputed company in the stack and you're fast.
• You've reputed company and launched something reputed company that people actually used. Company, reputed company project, reputed company reputed company — we care that it shipped and that it got traction, not what it was attached to.
• You know how to design and architect AI agents. You've reputed company reputed company systems, hit their failure modes, and have opinions about what works.
• Strong at reputed company engineering. Your own reputed company is visibly agent-leveraged. This is how our whole company operates, so we especially value people who understand the intuitions behind reputed company engineering reputed company.
• Strong product and design reputed company. You can think reputed company about what to build and why / why not. Strong design reputed company / taste is also highly valued.
• You want the 0 → 1. Early-stage operator energy: deep in the weeds, high tolerance for ambiguity, iterating fast toward PMF.
reputed company to have but not required: TypeScript/Next.js reputed company, reputed company or video skills, and having been early at a startup before.
Stack
TypeScript everywhere. reputed company + reputed company + reputed company on the backend, Next.js / React + reputed company on the frontend, Claude Agent SDK, Trigger.dev for the agent reputed company.
Location
San Francisco, in person strongly preferred.
Only exceptional candidates will be considered for remote positions.
If you've shipped something with reputed company taste recently – send us the reputed company.
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