Founding Engineer

Founding Equity + Amazing Benefits

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Salary: $150,000 - $215,000 per year

A bit about us:

We are on a mission to instantly solve production bugs using AI technology. In 2023, companies lost $2.2T to production software errors. Foam is building tools that provide instant fixes to production code errors. We have raised $2.4M from South Park Commons and The House Fund, with notable investors including Cognition, Render, Pilot, Transcend, Perplexity AI, and Superhuman.

Role Description
As a Founding Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology and product. You will be responsible for increasing our bug solve rate by implementing cutting-edge inference techniques, managing and improving our internal Foam benchmark for bug solving, and building and optimizing RAG systems and prompt engineering. You will work closely with our team to create incredible user experiences and develop efficient systems for collecting and storing diagnostic data.

Why join us?

Compensation

• Salary: $140K - $210K
• Equity: 0.25% - 3%
• Benefits & Perks
• Unlimited PTO
• 100% coverage for Medical, Vision, and Dental
• Pet insurance
• Travel stipend
• 401K

Company Culture
Foam emphasizes innovation in generative AI and focuses on practical solutions like writing prompts and building infrastructure. We foster a startup-friendly environment and are interested in candidates with founder aspirations.

Interview Process

• 15-20 minute chat with one of the founders
• 1-hour virtual coding interview (optional)
• 3-hour onsite interview (2 coding questions, 1 design question)

Job Details

Responsibilities

• Increase Foam's bug solve rate using advanced inference techniques (flow engineering, RAG, multi-agent architectures)
• Manage and improve internal Foam benchmark (evals) for bug solving
• Build and optimize RAG systems and prompt engineering
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to build data structures and infrastructure
• Develop efficient systems for collecting and storing diagnostic data
• Architect microservices to support our user experience

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend/full-stack engineering experience
• 2-3+ years of software engineering experience
• 1+ year of professional LLM experience or equivalent side projects/open source contributions
• Experience with RAGs and prompt engineering
• Proficiency with AI coding tools
• Coding experience (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python)
• Systems design experience
• Familiarity with microservices
• Experience working closely with users

Nice-to-Have

• Startup experience
• Tenure at a competitive tech company
• Open source LLM project contributions
• Experience building LLM applications like chatbots

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