Founding Engineer
Prox - San Francisco, CA | OnSite
Posted Jun 10, 2026
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $116,543 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +9.8% - Much faster than average
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Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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About this role
Founding Engineer San Francisco, CA | OnSite PROX IS HIRING FOUNDING ENGINEERS TL;DR - if you're delusional enough, never satisfied with your skill level, insanely hardworking, and want to carry a crazy amount of responsibility, where what you code on Monday impacts thousands of people on Tuesday, this is for you. - you'll work on knowledge engines and multimodal agents for complex physical products, including expressive voice AI https://www.hume.ai and codegen systems that explain what text alone can't, then lead the deployment of all of it to real customers. - no intro calls. to get considered, you post your submission to our challenge https://github.com/prox-technologies/prox-challenge. we review new submissions daily and respond to every one, so you'll hear from us very soon. from there, three more steps. pass them and you're in. - $200k cash salary + 1% equity. We're backed by Paul Graham, Bloomberg Beta, Burst Capital, SV Angel, Weights & Biases, and more. Position is in person in SF, 6 days/week [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/d27f947e-d494-4e83-b6a5-078191ca88b8/f913425a-4075-4bd9-bc36-70e2968aa8d9/8ced9bb9-7e49-4cf7-873a-20780cb55b2a-2.jpg] WHAT ARE WE DOING? Every product ever sold needs support at some point. That support falls into one of two buckets. Bucket 1: Simple stuff. T-shirts, screen protectors, keyboards. You buy it, it shows up, maybe you ask “where's my order?” once. This is solved. Zendesk and a hundred other horizontal companies solved it. Bucket 2: Hard stuff. $20,000 industrial heaters. HVAC systems. CNC machines. Car parts. Products where buying wrong means your building doesn't have heat or your manufacturing line is down. Support for these products
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