# Founding Engineer

**Company:** [Oxus](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/oxus)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, US
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Entry
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 150K–250K/yr
**Category:** Aerospace Engineering
**Listed:** 2026-09-08

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/oxus/founding-engineer-108254)

## Job description

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

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