# Founding Engineer (AI + Backend)

Founding Engineer (AI + Backend) About OpenBenchmarks Agents are becoming first-class users and consumers of the internet. They research, evaluate, compare tools and increasingly make build-versus-buy decisions on behalf of people. Every company will need to get their products picked and used by agents. Agents increasingly prefer open, independent and grounded benchmarks to make decisions. Openbenchmarks is the evaluation infrastructure for agents - domain-specific, reproducible evaluations that help agents pick tools with confidence. Our mission is to be the trusted evaluation layer for agents. Founders previously led AI research and Infra teams at Oracle and Appfolio; We started Openbenchmarks as an output of our research in the field of model behavior and how agents actually chose between different tools. We're a team of researchers, engineers and work with the fastest growing AI first companies like Parallel, Firecrawl, Telnyx, TinyFish and more. About the role We're a team of researchers, engineers and theorists, in person in SF. You'll be building the benchmarks and the systems that run them. Here are the broad themes that you’ll be working on Benchmarks and evals design - de

- **Id**: 1245213
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openbenchmarks-founding-engineer-ai-backend>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T17:18:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T13:30:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Market Research, Analytics & BI Consulting

## Company

- **Id**: 3779219
- **Name**: Openbenchmarks
- **Domain**: openbenchmarks.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openbenchmarks>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 120000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 120000

## Technologies

- **Firecrawl** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T17:18:16Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.401
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 120000
- **Is top pay**: no

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