Founding Engineer

Title: Founding Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA, US 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** 1. Intro call 2. Technical interview 3. In-person work trial 4. Offer + celebratory dinner with the team