# Founding Solutions Engineer

About Scalar: Building on a great API is one of the best feelings in software - every interface you want is right there, and it all just works. Building on a bad one is the opposite: out-of-date docs, no SDK in your language, no MCP server. We started Scalar to fix that. We're a small team (around ten engineers and designers) who wear a lot of hats and obsess over our craft. We think every company deserves Stripe-level docs, SDKs, and MCP servers from day zero - not just the ones with a platform team to build them. Open-source is in our DNA: our whole team contributes to and maintains repositories across the API ecosystem, including the standards everyone relies on, like OpenAPI. We keep things lean and move without layers of process - engineers pick up problems, talk to each other, and ship. We're looking for owners with high agency: people who see what needs doing and do it. If you do your best work with a lot of autonomy and very little ego, you'll feel at home here. The role Right now, sales at Scalar is Marc, our CEO, doing every part of it himself. Sourcing the account, running the first call, going deep on the technical evaluation, answering the security review, negotiating

- **Id**: 415368
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/scalar-founding-solutions-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **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**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-31T00:29:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-31
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T20:15:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 68
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8584
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Custom Software Development, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 288567
- **Name**: Scalar
- **Domain**: scalar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/scalar-3>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 125000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **PHP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Vercel AI SDK** — Optional: yes
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 68

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-06T02:58:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.393
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 68
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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