About Sylvan Labs
About the role
The Role As a Founding Engineer, you’ll work directly with the founders to architect, build, and scale the platform from 0 to 1. You’ll take full ownership of core features, shape the product roadmap, and drive technical execution in an environment that values speed, iteration, and excellence. - Own and ship features end-to-end, from architecture to deployment. - Build robust integrations + data ontology mapping tooling to streamline ingest and normalization of 3rd-party data, delivering enterprise-grade durability, scalability, and rapid customer deployments. - Develop and maintain intuitive, functional UIs — pushing the envelope on AI product patterns and moving beyond simple chatbots to create more immersive, assistive experiences. - Architect & build agentic solutions that automate complex workflows while advancing applied AI — from long-term agent memory to enhancing LLMs with reinforcement learning. - Work closely with customers, iterating rapidly to refine and improve the product. Who You Are - Been the top code contributor on your prior teams, not phased by the prospect of long hours when needed to ship and scale. - A world-class software engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment. - Passionate about building high-quality products with speed and precision. - Strong customer empathy — you understand user needs and build with them in mind. - Proven track record building real-world ML/AI products with solid grasp of AI/ML fundamentals.
Responsibilities
Requirements
- Been the top code contributor on your prior teams , not phased by the prospect of long hours when needed to ship and scale.
- A world-class software engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.
- Passionate about building high-quality products with speed and precision .
- Strong customer empathy — you understand user needs and build with them in mind.
- Proven track record building real-world ML/AI products with solid grasp of AI/ML fundamentals .
