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Founding Engineer (AI Engineer)

The Role

We’re looking for a founding AI and backend engineer to help build and scale our product as we roll it out to early customers and beyond. You’ll play a critical role in shaping our AI-driven security platform, collaborating closely with the founding team.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop AI-powered product features that enhance security and enterprise data governance
  • Engage with customers to understand needs and iterate on solutions
  • Own AI initiatives and system components end-to-end, from research to deployment
  • Contribute across the stack, from backend development to DevOps, ensuring performance, scalability, and security

Your Experience & Skills

  • 5+ years in a core software engineering team, shipping scalable software
  • 2+ years developing ML- or AI-driven features
  • Strong backend and systems engineering fundamentals
  • Experience training and deploying ML models and data-driven services
  • Familiarity with the latest LLM and ML advancements
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and solve complex technical challenges collaboratively
  • (Desirable) Experience with Python, SQL, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Mindset & Fit

  • Collaborative — thrives in a fast-paced startup environment
  • Strong opinions, loosely held — willing to debate, iterate, and adjust
  • Bias for action — prioritizes, ships fast, and avoids over-engineering
  • Passionate about AI and cybersecurity
  • Desire to have impact on all aspects of the company’s success

Why Join Us?

Excited to secure the future of GenAI? Join us!

About Opsin

Opsin is a venture-backed GenAI security company, funded by top-tier investors including Race Capital. We enable enterprises to safely adopt GenAI solutions like Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and other LLM-powered agentsby monitoring and securing enterprise data access. Our platform ensures employees can leverage AI without exposing sensitive or over-permissioned information.