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You'll work across the entire engineering stack, from product design and AI systems to backend infrastructure, integrations, and deployment.\nWe're a small, fast-moving team. We learn quickly, ship quickly, and continuously adapt based on customer feedback. If you're excited by ambiguity, ownership, and building products that matter, you'll feel at home here.\nWhat You'll Do\nYou'll work directly with customers to understand how they operate, identify high-impact opportunities for AI, and build production systems that solve meaningful business problems.\nYou'll own customer engagements end-to-end, from discovery and solution design to implementation, deployment, and ongoing iteration.\nBeyond client work, you'll help improve Soren itself by building internal tooling, automating workflows, and refining the systems that allow us to deliver increasingly powerful solutions to every customer.\nResponsibilities\nBuild, deploy, and maintain production AI agents and intelligent software systems.\nTranslate ambiguous customer problems into reliable, production-ready solutions.\nDesign and implement backend and full-stack applications using modern technologies.\nIntegrate with customer software, APIs, databases, and enterprise systems.\nPrototype quickly, iterate with customers, and continuously improve deployed systems.\nOwn reliability, security, and performance across customer deployments.\nImprove Soren's internal platform, development workflows, and delivery processes.\nTurn lessons learned from customer engagements into reusable tools, frameworks, and products.\nYou Should Join If You\nHave meaningful experience building AI systems or conducting applied AI research.\nAre an exceptional engineer who enjoys solving difficult, open-ended problems.\nThrive in fast-moving, ambiguous, 0→1 environments.\nCare deeply about building software that creates real value for customers.\nEnjoy working directly with users and understanding how they think and work.\nLearn quickly, take ownership, and execute with minimal direction.\nWant to help define both the product and the engineering culture of an early-stage company.\nAbout Soren\nSoren is the AI transformation partner for regulated industries.\nWe work with organizations that operate in highly regulated environments to deploy secure, production-grade AI systems.\nRather than forcing organizations to change how they work, we build AI around their existing workflows, institutional knowledge, and security requirements. We develop custom AI agents, intelligent automations, and enterprise AI infrastructure that integrate seamlessly into how teams already operate.\nOur goal is simple: make AI genuinely useful by solving economically meaningful problems.\nWhy Join Us\nWe're entering a once-in-a-generation shift in how knowledge work gets done.\nFor years, organizations have invested heavily in AI with relatively modest returns. In many cases, the technology wasn't the problem-the implementation was. Existing AI tools often require people to change established workflows or adapt years of expertise to generic software.\nWe believe the opposite approach is the future.\nInstead of asking people to work like AI, we build AI that works like people.\nBy deeply understanding how organizations operate, we create systems that augment existing expertise rather than replace it. The result is software that people actually adopt, trust, and rely on every day.\nAt the same time, advances in AI now make it possible to deliver enterprise-grade, private AI solutions faster than ever before. Organizations that once couldn't justify custom software can now deploy intelligent systems in weeks instead of years.\nIf you're excited about building technology that has immediate impact, working directly with customers, and helping define how AI transforms critical industries over the next decade, we'd love to work with you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4157,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["AI Agents","AI Consulting & Integration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T17:22:36Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":113,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":300000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/soren-ai-founding-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/soren-ai-founding-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T06:37:08Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4687,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":313,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}