Applied AI Founding Engineer (Agentic Workflows)

Salary: CHF 140'000 - 150'000 per year

Requirements:

Proven experience as a first or early engineer at a startup, or equivalent drive demonstrated through self-initiated projects

Experience building Agentic Workflows at scale

Strong backend skills in Python (FastAPI) and/or NodeJS

Practical experience with LLM orchestration (e.g. LangGraph) and shipping AI pipelines in production environments

Systems thinking mindset: deep understanding of data flow, state management, and robust error handling

High ownership mentality and pragmatic approach – you ship a good solution today rather than a perfect one tomorrow

Responsibilities:

Co-define system architecture and make independent technology decisions from day one

Build and operate AI agents that autonomously process complex, high-value transactions

Develop robust data pipelines that turn unstructured inputs into reliable API calls

Optimise orchestration logic for low latency and high reliability at production scale

Technologies:

AI

AI Agents

API

Backend

FastAPI

Flow

LLM

NodeJS

Python

RAG

AWS

JavaScript

More:

Small, building-focused founding team. You'll work directly on the product with real impact from day one. Meaningful equity on offer for the right person.

last updated 33 week of 2026