<div>We're hiring our founding technical hire â a Senior Technical Lead who will own the entire technical vision and execution. This is a co-builder role, not a cog-in-machine role.</div><div><strong>What You'll Own:</strong></div><ul><li>Designing and building custom AI implementations for SMB clients â from discovery through deployment</li><li>Integrations across the platforms our clients already use (Toast, Square, Mindbody, QuickBooks, HubSpot)</li><li>Our AI tooling stack (Claude API, Make.com, Clay) and the internal systems that power delivery</li><li>Ongoing maintenance, optimization, and evolution of client AI systems</li><li>Client-facing portal and delivery infrastructure</li><li>Technical hiring as we scale</li></ul><div><strong>What We're Looking For:</strong></div><ul><li>8+ years of engineering experience shipping real SaaS products</li><li>AI-native workflow: Cursor, Claude API, Make.com are daily tools, not experiments</li><li>Led a small team. You think in business outcomes, not just code</li><li>Former founding engineer or technical co-founder is a strong signal</li><li>Comfortable with ambiguity. You build the plane while flying it.</li></ul><div><strong>Compensation:</strong></div><ul><li>$160,000 - $200,000 base salary</li><li>4.5% equity (founding-level)</li><li>Fully remote, US-based</li></ul><div><strong>How to Apply:</strong> Send your background, what you've built, and why this role fits to <a href="mailto:josh@calibrategroup.ai">josh@calibrategroup.ai</a></div><hr /><div>How does that feel? Once you're happy with it I'll update everything â Wellfound live posting, the Battle Kit doc, and the email to Josh.</div><div><br /></div><div>We're hiring our founding technical hire â a Senior Technical Lead who will own the entire technical vision and execution. This is a co-builder role, not a cog-in-machine role.<br />This is an application-layer engineering role. You'll be building AI-powered tools that solve real business problems for real operators â not managing GPU clusters, optimizing inference pipelines, or scaling cloud infrastructure. If you get more excited connecting QuickBooks to an AI agent that saves a business owner 10 hours a week than you do tuning Kubernetes configs, keep reading.</div><br/><br/>Please mention the word **EFFECTIVENESS** and tag ROC4yMjguMTExLjcx when applying to show you read the job post completely (#ROC4yMjguMTExLjcx). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.