# Founding Engineer

Tldr; Build the human escalation layer that every AI agent will rely on. Founding engineer, full equity band. Agents are now writing the majority of code in Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and Devin. They draft contracts. They run support. They've crossed the line from demo to production. But agents still get stuck. They make confident mistakes in unfamiliar domains. They loop on bugs they can't diagnose. They ship architectures their users will quietly regret. Most people think this gap closes as models get better. We think it grows. As agents take on more autonomous, higher-stakes work, the long tail of "things only a domain expert can resolve" gets longer, not shorter. Every serious agentic system five years from now will have a human escalation layer underneath it. Humwork is building that layer. When an agent hits its limit, it calls Humwork. We match it to a verified expert - engineer, lawyer, infra specialist, designer, scientist, whoever fits - in under 30 seconds, hand off full context, and the expert works the problem inside the agent's loop. The agent resumes. The user never leaves their flow. We launched as an MCP plugin a few months ago. We're already integrated across Cla

- **Id**: 1262434
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/humwork-founding-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T20:56:35Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T14:02:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3997
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, AI Training Data & Annotation

## Company

- **Id**: 3779472
- **Name**: Humwork
- **Domain**: humwork.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/humwork>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 90000
- **Max**: 140000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 140000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **ChatGPT** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Devin** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Expo** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **Lovable** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **React Native** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Windsurf** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T20:56:35Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 19
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.412
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 140000
- **Is top pay**: no

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