Founding Engineer
CodeRound is hiring for this role for a VC-backed startup.
- Founding Engineer
- LLM
- AI Agents
- Generative AI
- Prompting
- Structured Outputs
- Tool Use
- LLM Evals
- AI Coding Agents
- Product Engineering
- AI Product
Founding Engineer role focused on building production systems and owning AI/LLM, evaluation, and product problems end to end. The role requires strong engineering depth, comfort with ambiguity, and a hands-on approach to shipping production products.
What you'll do
- Own problems across the AI agent, evaluations and product
- Build and improve LLM-powered systems
- Design how the AI behaves across a full user session
- Build evaluation systems to measure AI performance and learning
- Build product experiences around AI interactions
- Work on voice, thinking, drawing and conversational interactions
- Ship and iterate on production features
- Take ownership of whatever the product needs next
- Help shape how the engineering team builds and ships
Must have
2+ years of experience building production systems Strong understanding of LLMs Experience with prompting, structured outputs, tool use and evals Familiarity with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor or similar Strong engineering depth and problem-solving ability Comfortable working with undefined scope and taking end-to-end ownership Willing to work in person in Bengaluru From a top-20 engineering college or a top Indian startup Interested in shipping production products rather than demos
Good to have
Experience building LLM or agent systems that were the core product of a company