Salary / Hourly Rate: $130,000 - $200,000 per year & Equity 1-1.5%
Benefits: Equity (1-1.5%),Completely flexible paid time off / sick leave,Food in the office,Fun (often exotic 👀) company offsites,We do fun stuff together! Drinks, dinners, sports, activities
Role Information
Role Overview: N/A
Responsibilities: Engineering leadership: Craft the architecture and establish technical standards that will set the tone for years to come., Full stack coding: It’s no problem if you’re stronger in frontend, backend, devops but ultimately you’ll need to ship features across the stack, balancing speed and technical debt., Product vision: Collaborate with customers to build a beautiful, intuitive, valuable product. Have say in the company strategy and product direction.
Qualifications: React Typescript (Tailwind), Supabase, Railway (node) but mostly serverless, Having worked at a very high growth startup. If they've founded one, it's even better., If they've been to a top tier university, that's great., If they've evidence of really exceptional ability, that's great., Experience is flexible, so it doesn't matter if they're senior or junior, it matters if they're willing to work extremely hard and have prior evidence of being an extreme outlier.
Minimum Requirements: Has worked at a high-growth startup and thrived in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment.,Founder experience is a strong plus — having built or launched a project from scratch.,Attended a top-tier university or participated in entrepreneurship accelerators / elite programs, demonstrating high agency and ambition.,Shows a track record of exceptional problem-solving, shipping fast, and navigating ambiguity with minimal supervision.
Screening Questions: Please enter your github link here:,Tell me about a time you shipped something end-to-end. What tech did you use and how did you approach trade-offs?,Describe a situation where you had to move extremely fast in a high-stakes or high-pressure environment. How did you prioritize?,Have you ever built something that others didn’t think was possible or practical?,How have you incorporated user feedback directly into the product you were building?,What’s a technical architecture decision you made that you're particularly proud of (or would do differently now)?
Company Information
About Company: N/A
Culture: N/A
Additional Information
Interview Process: Record a short Loom video showcasing something you’ve built in the past, Walk us through what it does and how you built it, Doesn’t need to be polished — just show us something you’re proud of, Get to know each other, Understand broader company <> you fit, Establish logistical fit, Showing the UI + functionality of things you built, Sharing your screen and talking through code you wrote, Talking about who what when why for each, Who used it, Go through a problem we’re looking to solve together, Might be something currently on our roadmap, might be a similar problem we faced before, Share your previous work, Use a code editor, Ask questions, Google, Use AI, Talk through your story in depth, Understand your goals & motivations, Understand your working style, Tell you more about us, No prep required, What it’ll be like working with us, How Telepathic can be the catalyst to helping you reach your goals, Visas/relocation/logistics, Compensation/benefits, How we make this the most fun & rewarding chapter of your life!
Day to day: N/A
Team: Work mostly reviewed by other engineers, reports to Founder.
Growth: N/A
Ideal Candidate Profile: Founding or co-founding a startup — especially one where you built and shipped products end-to-end., Graduating from a top-tier university (e.g. MIT, Stanford, Harvard), particularly with technical or entrepreneurial involvement., Participating in elite programs like Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First, Thiel Fellowship, Google Brain Residency, or Recurse Center., Building ambitious technical projects solo or in small teams that gained real traction — open source, viral side projects, or full production apps., Demonstrating obsessive drive or learning speed — like mastering advanced systems design independently, or becoming the go-to problem solver on a scrappy team., Agentic: You’re someone who consistently changes outcomes through drive, resourcefulness, and execution., Founder mindset: You’ve built things from scratch—whether as a founder, early engineer, or solo hacker. You’re not just comfortable with chaos, you thrive in it., Technical mastery: Languages change, but fundamentals don't. You’re a great engineer who ships fast, leverages AI in your workflows, and cares deeply about reliability and impact., Rapid learner: We’re looking for people who can give and receive feedback openly. This should be the steepest and most exciting learning curve of your career., Enjoyment: We want this to be the most fun and meaningful chapter of your professional life. If you love solving real problems with smart people, you'll fit right in., You want easy work. What we’re doing is hard. It requires intensity, deep thinking, and rapid iteration. A+ performance is celebrated. Anything less doesn’t work here., You don’t care about delivering value fast. We prioritize practical impact over theoretical elegance. Shortcuts, simplifications, and real feedback loops are core to our culture., Tom Husson, Fergus White, Stephane Remi
Companies to source from: N/A
Messaging Channel
This is the messaging channel between the recruiters and the hiring manager for this role.
We're looking for a high-agency engineer to help build and shape a new generation of AI-powered products. This role blends full-stack engineering with customer-focused product development, ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced startup environments. You’ll work across the stack—primarily with React, TypeScript, and Node—while also helping define architecture, guide product direction, and build agent workflows that interface with real users. It's a great fit for builders who move quickly, think independently, and want to have a lasting impact on how the internet is navigated in an AI-native future.
Responsibilities
What’s an Agent Engineer?
Someone who builds agents, using agents, for a web navigated by agents. Naturally, you’ll be high agency yourself - meaning you have greater influence over the world around you than your peers.
Enough of that word for the moment. You can think of this like a Full Stack Engineer who talks to customers and has a particular focus on building our agent workflows.
You’ll be doing the following:
Engineering leadership: Craft the architecture and establish technical standards that will set the tone for years to come.
Full stack coding: It’s no problem if you’re stronger in frontend, backend, devops but ultimately you’ll need to ship features across the stack, balancing speed and technical debt.
Product vision: Collaborate with customers to build a beautiful, intuitive, valuable product. Have say in the company strategy and product direction.
Qualifications
The stack: - This is not a crucial requirement for the role. It's very simple, and what matters more is a history of building great products.
React Typescript (Tailwind)
Supabase
Railway (node) but mostly serverless
Some really strong indicators are:
Having worked at a very high growth startup. If they've founded one, it's even better.
If they've been to a top tier university, that's great.
If they've evidence of really exceptional ability, that's great.
Experience is flexible, so it doesn't matter if they're senior or junior, it matters if they're willing to work extremely hard and have prior evidence of being an extreme outlier.
Ideal Candidate
The most important things are that you have exceptional ability, a history of doing hard things, and a bias toward taking responsibility.
What we mean by "extreme outlier":
We're looking for candidates with a track record of performing at a level that significantly exceeds their peers. That might include:
Founding or co-founding a startup — especially one where you built and shipped products end-to-end.
Graduating from a top-tier university (e.g. MIT, Stanford, Harvard), particularly with technical or entrepreneurial involvement.
Participating in elite programs like Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First, Thiel Fellowship, Google Brain Residency, or Recurse Center.
Building ambitious technical projects solo or in small teams that gained real traction — open source, viral side projects, or full production apps.
Demonstrating obsessive drive or learning speed — like mastering advanced systems design independently, or becoming the go-to problem solver on a scrappy team.
Signs this might be for you:
Agentic: You’re someone who consistently changes outcomes through drive, resourcefulness, and execution.
Founder mindset: You’ve built things from scratch—whether as a founder, early engineer, or solo hacker. You’re not just comfortable with chaos, you thrive in it.
Technical mastery: Languages change, but fundamentals don't. You’re a great engineer who ships fast, leverages AI in your workflows, and cares deeply about reliability and impact.
Rapid learner: We’re looking for people who can give and receive feedback openly. This should be the steepest and most exciting learning curve of your career.
Enjoyment: We want this to be the most fun and meaningful chapter of your professional life. If you love solving real problems with smart people, you'll fit right in.
You likely won’t like it here if:
You want easy work. What we’re doing is hard. It requires intensity, deep thinking, and rapid iteration. A+ performance is celebrated. Anything less doesn’t work here.
You don’t care about delivering value fast. We prioritize practical impact over theoretical elegance. Shortcuts, simplifications, and real feedback loops are core to our culture.
At Telepathic, our mission is to reinvent how brands get discovered by building the world’s first autonomous SEO department. We’re on a bold path to reshape organic marketing in a future where AI agents dominate search and buying decisions. Our goal is to empower the best brands to be easily found in this new search paradigm.
Company Culture
Culturally, we’re a tight-knit, fast-moving team of technical founders who thrive on speed, creativity, and customer impact. We’re builders at heart—with backgrounds in startups, engineering, and even rockets—driven by curiosity and a shared ambition to deliver real value through innovation. If you’re excited by big shifts in how the internet works and want to be early at something truly transformative, you’ll fit right in.
Benefits
Retirement/401k
Health Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
Equity (1-1.5%)
Completely flexible paid time off / sick leave
Food in the office
Fun (often exotic 👀) company offsites
We do fun stuff together! Drinks, dinners, sports, activities
Relocation & Sponsorship
Relocation Assistance
Visa Sponsorship
What you can expect
Team
Work mostly reviewed by other engineers, reports to Founder.
Interview Process
### Step 1: Loom Video Submission - 5–10 mins
Record a short Loom video showcasing something you’ve built in the past
Walk us through what it does and how you built it
Doesn’t need to be polished — just show us something you’re proud of
### Call 1: Intro Call - 15 mins
Get to know each other
Understand broader company <> you fit
Establish logistical fit
### Call 2: Tech interview - 1 hr
Understand your previous work
Might include (projects or preferably work):
Showing the UI + functionality of things you built
Sharing your screen and talking through code you wrote
Talking about who what when why for each
Who used it
Go through a problem we’re looking to solve together
Might be something currently on our roadmap, might be a similar problem we faced before
I’ll send you a link invite to a problem we’re trying to solve and we want you to plan it, maybe write some pseudo code for it too sharing your screen
Please be able to:
Share your previous work
Use a code editor
Ask questions
You’re allowed (even encouraged?!) to
Google
Use AI
### Call 3: Culture fit interview - 1 hr
Talk through your story in depth
Understand your goals & motivations
Understand your working style
Tell you more about us
No prep required
### Step 4: In person
1-2 days most likely
We’ll fly you to our office and we can test working together for a day or two
We’ll try go from idea ⇒ production with one feature customers really want
### Step 5: Offer!
What it’ll be like working with us
How Telepathic can be the catalyst to helping you reach your goals
Visas/relocation/logistics
Compensation/benefits
How we make this the most fun & rewarding chapter of your life!
Additional Information
Additional Information
Overview
At Telepathic, we’re building the world’s first autonomous SEO department and are looking for an exceptional Agent Engineer as a fourth team member.
We recently raised from some of the best in the business: Cofounder, CEO @ Perplexity; Cofounder, CTO @ Slack; s16 vc; and many more. We’re rapidly iterating our product with paying customers of various sizes.
The company
You’ll be joining a team who know what they’re doing. Killian (Founder) was previously a CTO, is an Entrepreneur First alumn, and has also built rockets & Hyperloop pods in the past. We’re all founders by trade, technical, and love delivering value for customers at speed.
We’ve not even launched publicly yet and are already growing super quickly with brands you already know as customers.
Reach out to see a demo
The why
We’re building the world’s first autonomous SEO department.
We’re doing this because we want to help the best brands get found. Search is rapidly changing right now and there’s a huge opportunity to change organic marketing permanently. Soon, the internet will be navigated primarily by agents and buying decisions will largely determined by AIs, only with final human approval.
We’re building an AI-native search department to allow your brand to get found.
What if this works? The market for this is enormous. Over $80bn/year is spent on SEO and this will increase when more and more of buying journey happens before even talking to sales. Help us change search for the internet.
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Common Rejection Reasons
Founder experience, but no real traction—felt more like a personal project.
Lacking standout signals—no big achievements, top-tier schools, or outlier traits.
Slow-moving roles in enterprise settings—limited signs of ownership or pace.
These are common reasons why candidates have been rejected for this position. Consider these when selecting candidates to submit.
Relocation & Sponsorship
Relocation Assistance
Visa Sponsorship
Must-Have Requirements
Has worked at a high-growth startup and thrived in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment.
Founder experience is a strong plus — having built or launched a project from scratch.
Attended a top-tier university or participated in entrepreneurship accelerators / elite programs, demonstrating high agency and ambition.
Shows a track record of exceptional problem-solving, shipping fast, and navigating ambiguity with minimal supervision.
Screening Questions
1. Please enter your github link here:
2. Tell me about a time you shipped something end-to-end. What tech did you use and how did you approach trade-offs?
3. Describe a situation where you had to move extremely fast in a high-stakes or high-pressure environment. How did you prioritize?
4. Have you ever built something that others didn’t think was possible or practical?
5. How have you incorporated user feedback directly into the product you were building?
6. What’s a technical architecture decision you made that you're particularly proud of (or would do differently now)?
Benefits
Retirement/401k
Health Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
Equity (1-1.5%)
Completely flexible paid time off / sick leave
Food in the office
Fun (often exotic 👀) company offsites
We do fun stuff together! Drinks, dinners, sports, activities
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Founding/AI Engineer - Bounty Position
Company: Telepathic
Location: Soma, San Francisco
Employment Type: Full-time
Salary: $130,000 - $200,000 per year & Equity 1-1.5%
Bounty Amount: $9,750 - 15,000
We're looking for a high-agency engineer to help build and shape a new generation of AI-powered products. This role blends full-stack engineering with customer-focused product development, ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced startup environments. You’ll work across the stack—primarily with React, TypeScript, and Node—while also helping define architecture, guide product direction, and build agent workflows that interface with real users. It's a great fit for builders who move quickly, think independently, and want to have a lasting impact on how the internet is navigated in an AI-native future.
