# Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer We’re looking for one engineer who can build. You’ll build the shared context layer for recursive companies: a data lake that ingests everything a team produces with AI, an ontology that turns it into trustworthy, typed knowledge, and the loop that lets people and agents improve from it. You’ll own real surface area from day one. We’re three people with years of runway, so you’ll have enormous autonomy and you’ll ship constantly. And because we’re a tiny team, the role is broad: alongside building, you’ll pick up internal ops, customer relationships, and whatever moves the company that week. The heart of it is building. What "build" means here You have shipped something real: something with users, or something you use every day because you made it for yourself. You have gone from nothing to working software more than once. You’re comfortable across the stack. We ship native desktop apps on macOS, Windows, and Linux, a CLI and background daemon, agent integrations, and a cloud backend, across several languages. You do not need experience in all of these. You need to be the kind of person who picks up what they need. You reach for AI tools instinctively (Claude Code

- **Id**: 1245375
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nessie-founding-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **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**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T17:22:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T22:18:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4429
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, AI Development Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 3779585
- **Name**: Nessie
- **Domain**: nessielabs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nessie-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 150000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 150000

## Technologies

- **ChatGPT** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T17:22:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 15
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.533
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 150000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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