Founding Engineer

About Oxus

AI-powered automation for internal audit workflows

The role

We're looking for our first **Founding Engineer** to join us. **No audit or accounting experience is required.**### **What you'll do*** Build agentic workflows that perform complex, multi-step audit tasks* Work on retrieval, structured extraction, citations/provenance, OCR, and long-context reasoning across complex documents and messy enterprise data* Own and ship features end-to-end, from idea to customers* Diagnose issues quickly and ship fixes* Proactively identify and suggest product and technical improvements### **Your first three months with us*** **Week one:** Ship your first feature to production* **Month one:** Own increasingly complex features end-to-end* **Quarter one:** Own a meaningful surface area of the product, proactively identifying improvements and driving solutions from idea to production### **Who we're looking for*** A track record of building and shipping real software, whether through work, internships, startups, or ambitious projects* Strong Python and backend engineering skills* Significant experience building with Claude, Codex, Cursor, agent SDKs, and other AI tools* Moves quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality, with strong judgment about when to investigate further or ask* Clear, proactive communicator* Comfortable figuring things out without an established playbook* Excited to work intensely alongside the founding team: we're an in-person team in San Francisco and typically work 9/9/6We care much more about **what you've built, how you think, and how quickly and efficiently you can execute** than checking specific credential boxes.### **Strong bonuses*** Experience with document AI, RAG, OCR, multimodal models, or large-scale document processing* Experience building full-stack products * Experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and/or distributed systems* Built your own products, startups, or technically ambitious side projects* Been an early hire at a startup or worked on an early-stage team### **Why Oxus**You'll join early enough to have a meaningful impact on the product, architecture, and engineering culture. You'll work on real AI systems used in high-stakes workflows, where outputs need to be accurate, traceable, and reviewer-ready.We're a close-knit team that works hard, moves quickly, and invests in making the experience fun. Perks include free lunch and dinner, unlimited coffee/matcha/boba, team outings and offsites, and the AI tools you need to do your best work :)### **Interview Process**1. Intro call2. Technical interview3. In-person work trial4. Offer + celebratory dinner with the team

Skills

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• LLMs
• RAG
• AI Agents
• Multimodal AI