Founding Software Engineer - AI/LLM/Multimodal
Job Description
Our client is building the world’s fastest-growing marketplace for elite creative talent. We connect award-winning artists, directors, musicians, animators, and designers with frontier AI labs developing the next generation of multimodal systems including models like Sora, Suno,
Runway, and Grok Imagine.
This role is paying up to $300k salary base with 2% equity in top.
Must have AI/LLM/Multimodal experience.
Fully onsite role.
We are a small, high-talent-density team from Stanford and Mercor, backed by:
- The Co-Founder of xAI
- The Founder of Periodic Labs
- Researchers from OpenAI’s Sora team
- DeepMind alignment & evaluation leads
- Senior researchers from Salesforce AI, Meta, Google, and Anthropic
Role Overview
As a Founding Engineer, you will own core product surfaces, architecture, and infrastructure for the platform. You’ll help shape engineering culture, drive rapid product iteration, and work directly with founders to build the marketplace and data systems powering the next wave of multimodal AI innovation.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in high-agency environments, ships quickly, and enjoys solving end-to-end problems across the stack.
What You Will Build
Marketplace & Talent Systems
- Onboarding flows for elite creative talent
- AI-assisted interviews and evaluations
- Self-serve matching tools between talent and AI labs
- Payment, billing, and workflow automation
Data & Infrastructure Products
- Tools for frontier AI labs to support training and evaluation
- Internal platforms for data quality, annotation, and performance insights
Product & Engineering Leadership
- Shape engineering culture, processes, and best practices
- Ship fast across greenfield projects with high ownership
- Influence product direction through tight feedback cycles with founders and users
What We’re Looking For
- Strong proficiency with Python, React, and TypeScript
- Experience with AWS, Docker, CI/CD, and modern infrastructure tooling
- Ability to operate independently and handle ambiguity in a fast-moving environment
- Interest in gamified platforms, creative tools, or marketplace dynamics
- Bias for action, strong communication skills, and a builder mentality