Founding Engineer
EmployLabs
- Pay
- ₹8–18 lakh a year
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Location
- Remote · India
- Job type
- Full-time
- TypeScript
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- LLM-powered features
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- Codex
About the role
Build the systems behind the AI recruiter, AI career companion, and AI GTM engine. Ship and own LLM-powered features end-to-end in production. Design and operate real-time voice agent infrastructure. Build reliable long-running workflows and distributed systems. Own production reliability, cost, and latency. Build WhatsApp, email, and calling infrastructure. Operate as a high-ownership founding engineer across the stack.
What you’ll do
- AI engineering: tool calling, MCPs, skills, context engineering, cost optimization, structured outputs, AI frameworks
- build real-time voice agents (Livekit, ElevenLabs, Deepgram etc)
- build long-running workflows & distributed systems
- build WhatsApp, Email & Calling infrastructure
- work with Postgres, queues, retries, idempotency
- own production reliability, cost & latency
- full-stack product engineering
What we’re looking for
Must have
- TypeScript
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- LLM-powered features
- Claude Code
- Cursor
Nice to have
- startup experience
- AI agents
- voice
- telephony
- WhatsApp APIs
- durable workflows
What makes this role challenging
- Owning production reliability, cost, and latency for AI systems with no safety net
- Building real-time voice agents with tight latency budgets
- Designing durable long-running workflows with retries and idempotency
- Working with high ambiguity and breadth as a founding engineer
- Shipping LLM-powered features that must be reliable in production
What success looks like
- First 30 days
- Ramped on the codebase and shipped small changes to one of the live AI products
- By 90 days
- Owning a system end-to-end (e.g. voice agents or workflow infrastructure) and shipping LLM-powered features to production
- First year
- Set the technical direction for reliability, cost, and latency across the AI products and scaled the systems behind them
About EmployLabs
EmployLabs is an AI-native recruitment platform headquartered in San Francisco, California. It offers a people search engine scanning over 80 million profiles and a live AI interview agent named Naira that generates role-calibrated assessments. The company serves GCCs, agencies, and enterprises including BMW, Randstad, Deloitte, and Accenture.
AI recruiting / HR tech · 1-10 employees
We’re hiring a Founding Engineer(Full-time, remote) at EmployLabs.
📍Remote — India
💰 Salary + meaningful ESOP
🕐 Daily Stand-up: 12:30–1:30 IST
We’re building AI that does the work of recruiting.We already have 3 products live in production - an AI recruiter, an AI career companion, and an AI GTM engine.Now we’re looking for someone who wants to build the systems behind them with us.
You’ll work on:→
→ AI engineering : Tool calling, MCPs, Skills, Context engineering, Cost optimization, Structured outputs, AI frameworks
→ Real-time voice agents (Livekit, ElevenLabs, Deepgram etc)
→ Long-running workflows & distributed systems
→ WhatsApp, Email & Calling infrastructure
→ Postgres, queues, retries, idempotency
→ Production reliability, cost & latency
→ Full-stack product engineering
This is a high-ownership role. You won’t just receive tickets and implement them. You’ll understand the problem, design the system, build it, ship it, and own what happens in production.
We’re looking for
- 2+ years of professional engineering experience
- must have Strong TypeScript & Python Solid Postgres fundamentals
- Must have Experience shipping real LLM-powered features
- Comfortable with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or similar tools
- Someone who enjoys figuring things out independently
Strong signals: startup experience, your own products, AI agents, voice/telephony, WhatsApp APIs, durable workflows or running your own infrastructure.