Founding Lead Engineer — AI & Workflow Automation
Founders Factory is a venture studio, accelerator, and investment platform that builds and funds early-stage startups. It supports founders with capital, operational expertise, corporate partnerships, and access to a global network.
About Founders Factory
Founders Factory partners with entrepreneurs and leading companies to co-found new ventures, accelerate startups, and invest in early-stage businesses. Its activities include venture building, cohort-based accelerator programs, sector-focused investment funds, operational support, and corporate innovation partnerships across fintech, health, industrials, deep tech, and climate. It serves ambitious founders, corporate partners, and early-stage technology startups.
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About the Role
You will build the first product from scratch for automating skilled-worker recruitment. You will develop candidate acquisition qualification matching and follow-up workflows, connect APIs databases messaging tools and third-party systems, and ship LLM and AI-agent functionality to users. You will work independently from zero to a working product, validate ideas quickly, and potentially become the venture’s Technical Co-Founder.
Requirements
- Strong full-stack engineering skills
- Experience automating messy real-world workflows
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM or AI-agent functionality
- Experience connecting APIs databases messaging tools and third-party systems
- Product-minded approach
- High ownership and entrepreneurial ambition
- Familiarity with the DACH market
- German language skills strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Build the first product from scratch
- Automate candidate acquisition and qualification workflows
- Develop matching and follow-up functionality
- Ship LLM and AI-agent features to users
- Connect APIs databases messaging tools and third-party systems
- Integrate the product into existing recruiting workflows
- Validate product ideas quickly
Benefits
- Hands-on support from Founders Factory
- Access to a network of founders operators corporate partners and investors
