Founding Engineer
- Full-time
- On-site · New York, NY, US / San Francisco, CA, US
- $140K - $250K · 0.25% - 2.00% equity
Posted
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- Role: Engineering / Full stack
- Experience: Any (new grads ok)
- Visa: Will sponsor
- Skills: Python, TypeScript
Founding Engineer at AgentPhone
About AgentPhone
AgentPhone gives AI agents phone numbers. Voice, SMS, and iMessage through one API.
The oldest address on the internet is a phone number. Every business, every bank, every human still runs on it. But the entire telephony stack was built for humans dialing humans. AI agents are about to make and receive millions of calls and texts, and the infrastructure underneath them was never designed for that.
We're building it. Over 100 companies use AgentPhone today to provision numbers, place and receive calls, send texts and iMessages, and stay compliant with carrier regulations, all from a single API and MCP server. We're backed by Y Combinator (P26) and investors including Swift Ventures, Singularity Capital, Leonis Capital, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund and more.
The Role
You'll be our first engineering hire, working directly with the two founders (CEO and CTO, also brothers, we argue efficiently). Your job is to make the company better every single day: better product, better infrastructure, better customer experience. You'll ship code, talk to customers, and own problems end to end.
You don't need any telephony experience. Telecom is a weird, adversarial, undocumented world. Carriers filter messages with rules they won't publish. Countries block traffic at the network level. Apple decides your iMessages are spam and won't tell you why. Nobody comes in knowing this stuff. What we need is a go-getter who can use AI extremely well to learn fast, ship fast, and figure things out that most companies gave up on decades ago. That's the moat, and you'd be building it.