Founding Engineer
Founding Engineer at Astraea — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Astraea
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 120000–220000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We are looking for a founding engineer who wants to build deeply technical AI systems in one of the most important and regulated industries in the world.
You will work directly with the founders to:
Build agentic workflows for clinical trial automation
Design reliable systems for document ingestion, data transformation, validation, and auditability
Own core product surfaces across frontend, backend, data infrastructure, and AI orchestration
Work closely with clinical teams to turn messy real-world workflows into production software
Ship quickly while maintaining the rigor required for regulated healthcare environments
You might be a fit if you:
Are an exceptional full-stack or backend engineer
Care about building reliable, production-grade AI systems and can/have integrated into legacy systems in the past
Move fast, take ownership, and like ambiguous technical problems
Are excited by using AI to automate healthcare, clinical trials, or regulated data workflows
Want to join at the earliest stage and help define the engineering culture
We care less about credentials and more about raw ability, taste, speed, and ownership. This is a high-agency founding role for someone who wants to build category-defining software.