Founding Engineer
a16z-speedrun · Posted Sep 20, 2026
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Senior
- $150K–$200K per year
Lead engineering effort to build specialized software and shared platform for autonomous machine fleets.
Compensation
$150-200K base + 0.5–1% equity + benefits
Responsibilities
- Shape architecture, product, engineering culture, and customer-deployment model
- Interview company employees to understand challenges
- Build integration and agent tooling for key customer data sources
- Optimize harness capabilities using trace data
- Fine-tune specialized models for firmware error diagnosis
Requirements
- Bachelor's in Computer Science
- Bachelor's in Mathematics
- Bachelor's in Software Engineering
- Bachelor's in Physics
- Nice to have: Experience in robotics