Founding Engineer

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• Role: Engineering / Full stack
• Experience: Any (new grads ok)
• Visa: US citizen/visa only
• Skills: React, Rust, TypeScript

Full-time. San Francisco, in person.

Base salary: $120,000 to $240,000 per year. Equity: approximately 0.5% to 1.5%, depending on experience and scope.

Build agents that carry work through to a useful result

Screenpipe helps companies find work worth automating. It captures screen and audio activity, makes computer history searchable, and gives AI agents context from how work happens. Capture history stays on the device by default; optional cloud AI, sync, and enterprise storage have separate data paths.

We want agents to do substantial work across engineering, support, research, sales, and operations. People set direction and make decisions that need human judgment. You'll work directly with the founder on the product and the agent infrastructure we use ourselves, then turn what works into capabilities customers can rely on.

What you'll own

• Build persistent memory, context retrieval, tool integrations, MCP servers, and orchestration for work that continues across sessions.
• Make workflows recover from interruptions, retry safely, and verify results without duplicating external actions. Define permissions and when a person needs to take over.
• Build traces, reproducible failure cases, and focused regression evaluations so we can understand failures and measure improvements.
• Improve Screenpipe's desktop capture, local storage, search, APIs, and interfaces. Investigate crashes, audio failures, memory use, and CPU usage on real machines.
• Talk to users, choose a useful scope, ship it, and follow through on whether it helped. Keep the code understandable as the product grows.