Calling the bold.

Calling the bold.

Uncork-backed companies are hiring explorers, builders, and operators ready to help chart new territory.

Uncork-backed companies are hiring explorers, builders, and operators ready to help chart new territory.

Founding AI Engineer

Create

Create

Software Engineering, Data Science
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 125k-200k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 29, 2025

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Founding Team

Compensation

  • $125K – $200K • 0.25% – 0.75%

We're hiring AI engineers to build the systems that make Create intelligent. Often that involves staring down ambiguous research problems. And shipping clever ways of solving them.

Sample projects include:

  • Prompt engineering, fine tuning, and/or training models for codegen to better match user intent

  • Creating retrieval models to augment code understanding or design quality

  • Inventing techniques for Create's AI agent to autonomously solve compile or run time errors

  • Designing new agent flows to dramatically increase reliability

Your background looks something like:

  • 4+ years of production experience with Typescript as a full stack engineer or applied researcher

    • If you've personally built something people use, YOE is irrelevant

  • You've built a product people love on your own or on a team

  • Deep curiosity about the latest AI research and applications and a knack for turning them into reality

  • Strong prompt intuition and ability to debug AI behavior like a system

  • Don't comprise between going deep and shipping fast.

  • Excited to work in person with the team 5 days / week in San Francisco

  • You've used Create and have strong opinions on what to build next


We pay extra attention if you have:

  • Prior experience as a founder or founding eng

  • Strong product, design, or AI taste

  • Strong production experience with LLMs

  • Familiarity with AI dev tools

Compensation Range: $125K - $200K