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Founding AI Engineer at Stealth Vertical AI Startup

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Stealth Vertical AI Startup (a16z Speedrun 006) | Founding AI Engineer

Location: San Francisco | Onsite

Compensation: $120K + Top Equity

About the Company:

We're building the first AI mover in a massive, real-world industry crucial to keeping the modern world running. We achieved $100K ARR in 3 months and received pre-seed funding from a16z speedrun.

Team:

  • Michael Holkesvik (me!): CTO of a series B company that raised $65M.
  • Sanjay Dasari (nice guy!): 2× founder who scaled his last startup to $250M revenue.
  • We have the best advisory board in the industry.

About the Role:

  • Work directly with the founders.
  • Own full-stack features end-to-end.
  • Involve customer site visits to share tools with expert blue-collar workers. We need to be onsite occasionally to learn what's working.

Requirements:

  • Sharp and scrappy.
  • Excited about overlooked industries.
  • 2-3 years of experience, ideally writing code at an early-stage startup.
  • Excited about cutting-edge voice AI (pipecat, vapi), AI agents (Browserbase, Vercel AI SDK), and multimodal reasoning.

Apply:

Send a short note and optional links to projects/code to mike [at] heaviai [dot] com.

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