Founding Engineer
- Location
- New York
- Workplace
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Compensation
- $180k – $250k + equity
- Visa
- Only visa transfers
About this role
You'll be a Founding Engineer at Movo AI, joining a six-person team building multi-modal AI agents across voice, SMS, and email. You'll own one of four core domains end-to-end—B2B product, agent layer quality, family graph infrastructure, or B2C consumer product—and make product decisions directly alongside customers. The company hit seven figures of ARR in 4.5 months; this is a true founding seat with the option to grow into leadership or stay deep on the IC track.
What You'll Do
- Own an entire domain end-to-end, from architecture to shipping features daily in production.
- Join customer calls, synthesize feedback, and make product decisions without a PM.
- Build and optimize multi-modal agents with sub-500ms voice latency, best-in-class SMS response rates, and long-running conversation state across channels.
- Drive the architecture and quality bar for non-deterministic systems, including evals, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection.
- Work full-stack: React/Next.js frontends, Node.js backends, and Python voice services.
What We're Looking For
- 3–8 years of full-stack engineering experience, with a track record of shipping 0-to-1 products at high-growth startups, as a founder, or in new vertical teams at large tech companies.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript (Node.js, React/Next.js) and production experience with LLM APIs or agent SDKs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel AI SDK, Mastra, or similar).
- Depth in at least one domain: production voice/SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, B2B2C or marketplace products, or agent evals and guardrails.
- Proven ability to make product decisions independently and conduct customer calls without a PM.
- Python experience for real-time voice pipelines (LiveKit, Deepgram, STT/TTS) or eval tooling (Braintrust, LLM-as-judge).
- Founder experience with real traction (revenue, funding, or acquisition) and ability to articulate learnings from failures, or strong CS fundamentals.
Location
On-site, five days per week in Chelsea, New York City.
What happens next
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Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
Clera pitches you to the company
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A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, Clera gets the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
The team is based onsite at the FlatIron office in NYC.
The company is obsessively focused on the client experience and moves fast.
The team comprises operators and builders, indicating cross-functional collaboration.
The company learns what converts and continuously improves performance, reflecting a growth mindset.
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