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Founding Engineer (LLM and Shipping)

Avacend, Inc.United States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 24 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Title:        Founding Engineer 
Location:     NYC, NY / Remote options for right candidate
Duration:    Full-Time
 
Job Description:
  • Client is building the autonomous workforce for healthcare supply chain.
  • Candidate with experience writing production code, hands-on shipping role within the past 12 months required.
  • Production experience with LLMs/agents (not just prompting; orchestration, state, evals, failure handling).
  • Comfortable in a small founding team environment reporting directly to the founder.
  • Public artifacts of agent work: GitHub repos, blog posts, talks, OSS contributions to LangGraph, DSPy,
  • Inspect, Anthropic SDK, etc.
  • Vertical AI background (healthcare, legal, insurance, finance) with messy unstructured data.
  • Experience evolving custom customer work into reusable platform primitives.
  • Has been the early/engineer at a previous startup.

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