# Founding Engineer

About Wildcard Wildcard is the agentic commerce optimization platform for ecommerce and retail brands. We help brands understand, improve, and monetize how their products show up across AI shopping agents. We’re building the mission control for agentic commerce: visibility (AEO & GEO), recommendations, execution, attribution, and automation in one platform. As shopping shifts from traditional search to AI agents, brands need to know where they appear, why competitors are winning, what to change, and whether those changes drive real business outcomes. We’re growing 50% month over month. Who you’ll work with You’ll work directly with me, Kaushik Mahorker, founder of Wildcard. Previously at Scale AI, I built the ecommerce enrichment engine behind the company’s largest pilot across 400K SKUs, 2.8M attributes, and hundreds of taxonomies, helping secure $15M+ in contracts with major retailers and marketplaces. That experience made something clear: shopping discovery is being rebuilt for an AI-first world, and most brands are not prepared for the shift. The role We’re looking for a Founding Engineer to help shape both the product and the company from the earliest stage. This is engineer n

- **Id**: 1262052
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/wildcard-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**: 2026-09-25T20:43:38Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T02:50:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce, Machine Learning, E-commerce Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 3176126
- **Name**: Wildcard
- **Domain**: wild-card.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/wild-card>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **FastAI** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Scale AI** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T20:43:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 21
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.472
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

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

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