Founding Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 10, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 28, 2026.
We’re hiring a Founding Engineer to join our team! This role is full-time in San Francisco at our Presidio office (5x/wk).
Gauge helps companies show up in more AI answers. Search traffic is shifting away from Google into AI chat, and companies are figuring out how to adapt right now.
Our system delivers real-time analytics derived from millions of LLM answers, while also providing an intuitive, powerful UX. We generate optimized articles to improve our customers’ visibility, and offer an agentic chat interface over their data (think ‘Why was there a spike on 12/10?’ or ‘Which of my pages should I refresh?’).
We are among the first to extend this visibility to coding agents (think Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) in order to autonomously improve Agent Experience and drive more leads. We use our own product internally to stay on the cutting edge of Agent-Led Growth.
What You’ll Do
In this role, you would work on every component in our system to improve the product for customers. You will be expected to turn high-level guidance into high quality, end-to-end features, while making smart investments in our platform.
You could be building agent workflows, powerful CLI tools, or anything else that helps our customers win in AI search.
We have Slack channels with our customers, so you’ll get immediate feedback when you ship.
What We’re Looking For
We need engineers who can maintain a strong quality bar while shipping extremely quickly, and who know how to make effective tradeoffs to get features in front of customers.
You might be a good fit if you are an ex-founder, ex-founding engineer, or have worked at a high-growth Seed/Series A startup.
Strong candidates:
- have built products from 0 → 1
- have broad experience across the stack
- use agentic coding tools effectively
- have 3+ YoE in web development
Initial Screen (30m) → Tech Exercise (1hr) → Onsite (6hrs)