Founding AI Engineer (San Francisco)

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Base pay range

$150,000.00/yr - $225,000.00/yr

Hiring 3 founding engineers to work in-person with us in SF.
About Combinely
Combinely is building an AI coworker for accountants.
Accounting firms spend $180 billion on labor in the US alone while their workforce is shrinking 75% of CPAs will retire in the next decade. Combinely bridges the gap with an AI coworker that uses the same tools & knowledge to draft client-ready work just like a seasoned accountant.
Founded by an ex-Google engineer and a former Deloitte accountant, were profitable, backed by top investors, and already live inside leading accounting firms across the world.
What youll do

• Deliver magic design, build, and ship agentic AI systems that can reason, use tools, and solve complex accounting tasks.
• Talk to customers understand the impact of the product and how to take it to the next level.
• Hire & mentor help recruit the next wave of engineers and establish a positive & high-performance culture.
  

Youll Be a Fit If You Are

• Growth-oriented: youre excited to wade into the deep end and learn fast.
• Customer-obsessed: user problems energise you, and you measure success in real-world impact.
• High agency: you default to action, break through blockers, and leave things better than you found them.
  

Your experience
Requirements

• 2+ years building and shipping production software
• Experience building and shipping LLM-powered products, with a deep understanding of agents, RAG, and evaluation.
• Strong programming skills, ideally in TypeScript or Python. Our stack is primarily TypeScript, Next.js, Prisma + MySQL, deployed on Vercel, PlanetScale, GCP & Azure.
• Daily user of AI coding tools (e.g. Cursor)
• Happy to work in-person in SF 5 days a week
• Authorised to work in the US.
  

Nice to haves

• Experience with accounting, fintech, or compliance workloads
• Startup or B2B software background
  

Interview process
We aim to move fast and give an answer within 24 hours after each stage. You can expect an offer within 2 weeks from application.

• Founder call (30 mins) get to know each other and make sure were on the same page.
• Take-home task (72h) a realistic task you might take on at Combinely.
• On-site interview (2-3h) deep-dive on your take-home + extend it with a new feature, walk through past projects, and an open culture chat.
  

Why join now

• Own meaningful equity enough to not need another job if we succeed.
• Mentorship + autonomy work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders, not through layers of management.
• Impact solve hard problems, influence product strategy, and reshape an entire industry.
  

\ Looking forward to seeing your application!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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