Founding Engineer
Oxus · San Francisco, CA, US
Job Description
We're looking for our first Founding Engineer to join us. No audit or accounting experience is required.
What you'll do
- Build agentic workflows that perform complex, multi-step audit tasks
- Work on retrieval, structured extraction, citations/provenance, OCR, and long-context reasoning across complex documents and messy enterprise data
- Own and ship features end-to-end, from idea to customers
- Diagnose issues quickly and ship fixes
- Proactively identify and suggest product and technical improvements
Your first three months with us
- Week one: Ship your first feature to production
- Month one: Own increasingly complex features end-to-end
- Quarter one: Own a meaningful surface area of the product, proactively identifying improvements and driving solutions from idea to production
Who we're looking for
- A track record of building and shipping real software, whether through work, internships, startups, or ambitious projects
- Strong Python and backend engineering skills
- Significant experience building with Claude, Codex, Cursor, agent SDKs, and other AI tools
- Moves quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality, with strong judgment about when to investigate further or ask
- Clear, proactive communicator
- Comfortable figuring things out without an established playbook
- Excited to work intensely alongside the founding team: we're an in-person team in San Francisco and typically work 9/9/6
We care much more about what you've built, how you think, and how quickly and efficiently you can execute than checking specific credential boxes.
Strong bonuses
- Experience with document AI, RAG, OCR, multimodal models, or large-scale document processing
- Experience building full-stack products
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and/or distributed systems
- Built your own products, startups, or technically ambitious side projects
- Been an early hire at a startup or worked on an early-stage team
Why Oxus
You'll join early enough to have a meaningful impact on the product, architecture, and engineering culture. You'll work on real AI systems used in high-stakes workflows, where outputs need to be accurate, traceable, and reviewer-ready.
We're a close-knit team that works hard, moves quickly, and invests in making the experience fun. Perks include free lunch and dinner, unlimited coffee/matcha/boba, team outings and offsites, and the AI tools you need to do your best work :)
Interview Process
- Intro call
- Technical interview
- In-person work trial
- Offer + celebratory dinner with the team
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