Founding Engineer — San Francisco, CA

Founding Engineering Lead

Base salary: $200K–$300K plus equity

Location: San Francisco, in person 4 days per week | Full time

You have built from zero before. Now build technology that changes how cities care for the roads people use every day. In Port Lavaca, Texas, public works leaders have used the platform in capital improvement budgeting; Alexandria, Kentucky, reports saving three weeks of road survey and data entry. This is a chance to work directly with the founder and turn that early impact into a lasting product.

We are hiring for a company building the operating layer for the infrastructure cities maintain. Roads are the starting point: imagery, vehicle data, GIS records, engineering documents, and local knowledge become a living map of assets and their condition. Public works teams can use that evidence to plan capital, explain priorities, and manage work. The longer ambition reaches sidewalks, drainage, signs, bridges, and other public assets. The product has customers, revenue, and funding, while the engineering choices that define the next phase are still open.

You would join a world-class engineering team that includes a founding software engineer formerly at Brex and a machine learning engineer formerly at X, Google's moonshot factory.

What you'll own

Take customer problems from first conversation to shipped software. The scope reaches product decisions, architecture, interface, data model, releases, and the standards a growing engineering team will inherit.

• Choose the highest-value customer problem and test the fastest credible solution.

• Build across React, TypeScript, Mapbox, Express, and the geospatial data layer.

• Set quality thresholds and human-review paths for imperfect physical-world inputs.

• Stay close to deployment, own production outcomes, and help shape the future team.

Problems you'll solve

A city cannot base a maintenance plan on a black-box score. You will connect source imagery and records to clear recommendations, make uncertainty visible, and help officials explain why one road or asset needs attention before another.

What we're looking for

• You founded or helped found a technical product and still enjoy writing code.

• You have shipped a customer-facing product through ambiguity and production issues.

• You can connect technical choices to adoption, budgets, and business value.

• You work constructively with a founder and can be in San Francisco in person 4 days per week.

Role details

• Base salary: $200K–$300K, plus founding-team equity.

• Full time, San Francisco, in person 4 days per week.

• Work directly with the founder and a small engineering team.

• Core stack: React, TypeScript, Mapbox, Express, geospatial data, and practical infrastructure.

• Visa sponsorship has not been confirmed; please ask if this affects your search.

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Tell us about a product you personally shipped, the customer problem it solved, the technical decisions you owned, and what happened when people used it. We are especially interested in how you handled imperfect information and what you changed after launch.