Founding AI Lead Engineer, YC Experience

🕒 August 14

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $200k - $350k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 AI Engineer

👻 Ghost score 13%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Pragmatike

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🎯 Recruiter

Consulting • Marketing • Recruitment

Pragmatike is a remote IT recruitment and staffing company that sources, vets, and places international tech talent for businesses. They provide human-curated matching (not solely AI), technical assessments, and fast placements—claiming qualified specialists can be introduced within 48 hours—while handling onboarding, invoicing and international payroll. Pragmatike serves startups and enterprises with roles like developers, data engineers, mobile and game developers, product managers and specialists, operating across 60+ countries with a large vetted talent pool.

📋 Description

• Lead 0→1 product initiatives from discovery through scale • Partner directly with customers and Product leadership • Design and implement full-stack product architectures • Establish technical foundations for new products • Translate ambiguous product problems into scalable solutions • Balance speed, product quality, and technical sustainability • Mentor engineers working on product initiatives • Influence product roadmap and engineering priorities • Lead the company’s AI engineering organization and establish technical strategy for production AI systems

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience • Experience with YC-backed start-ups • Strong full-stack and product engineering experience • Proven 0→1 product development track record • Excellent product judgment and technical depth • Strong architecture and system design skills • Ability to work independently in highly ambiguous environments • AI product development experience (nice to have) • Startup/scale-up experience (nice to have) • Experience working closely with founders or product leadership (nice to have) • Experience taking products from prototype to significant scale (nice to have) • Fluent English required • United States work authorization or ability to obtain employer sponsorship, as addressed in the application

🏖️ Benefits

• Full benefit package • Competitive compensation • Collaborative, fast-moving environment • Meaningful influence on architecture, product direction, and engineering culture • Opportunity to grow alongside an ambitious team