Founding Engineer ($180K – $225K + Equity) at Kiloforge

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Job Title: Founding Engineer at Kiloforge - a16z-backed AI app factory

Salary: $180K – $225K + Equity

Company Description: Kiloforge - a16z-backed AI app factory

Job Description:
Join a seed-stage powerhouse founded by Google Brain and DeepMind researchers to build an autonomous app factory. You will ship one complete niche application per week, evolving our engineering pipeline to reach 10,000 self-evolving micro-apps. This is a rare 0-to-1 opportunity to define how AI directs entire companies and capture massive underserved markets.

Location: San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable:

  • Backed by elite investors including a16z, Uncork Capital, YC Partners, and Superhuman founder Rahul Vohra.

  • Work directly with a founding team of AI researchers from Google Brain and DeepMind who have previously scaled startups to $60M+ in transactions.

  • High-velocity environment where you ship a real product every week, compounding quality through automated platform systems and proprietary AI tooling.

What you will do:

  • Build and ship one working niche application per week, owning the entire lifecycle from ideation and design to deployment and marketing.

  • Extract repeatable engineering patterns from manual workflows to build an automated, self-evolving production pipeline for micro-apps.

  • Achieve $1M ARR on at least one portfolio app within your first few months by optimizing the cross-promotion engine and data flywheels.

The ideal candidate:

  • 5+ years of experience building and scaling production software used by thousands of real users in a professional capacity.

  • Expertise in TypeScript, React, Node, and Python, with a deep mastery of using LLMs (Cursor, Claude, GPT-4) as core infrastructure.

  • A proactive builder with strong product taste who can handle the full stack, including infrastructure, deployment, and mobile development via SwiftUI.

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Next steps

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Step 4. Jack will make sure Jill (the AI agent working for the company) considers you for this role.
Step 5. If Jill thinks you're a great fit and her client wants to meet you, they will make the introduction.
Step 6. If not, Jack will find you excellent alternatives. All for free.

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