Founding Engineer, Agentic Systems

About the Role

Take full ownership of our agent runtime. You'll build the systems that let a personal finance agent operate safely, reliably, and verifiably in production: memory, context assembly, state management, task execution, tool integration, execution boundaries, evals, and recovery. The runtime is partially built and your first mandate is to understand what's there, cut what doesn't need to exist, and make the rest trustworthy enough to move real money.

What you'll do

Agent runtime ownership

• Own the full runtime loop: from planner to task execution to verification and recovery.
• Design and implement memory infrastructure: episodic, semantic, temporal state, context assembly, compaction, and conflict resolution.
• Own state machines, session runners, pause/resume, connection state, and challenge detection.

Execution integration

• Define and stabilize the execution boundary with OpenClaw, Virtual Compute, browser/session providers, and direct APIs and connectors.
• Decide what Pepper owns vs delegates, and build the abstraction layer that makes that contract clear and stable.
• Own credential flows, OTP/auth state, capability permissions, and safe execution boundaries.

Reliability

• Build tracing, telemetry, replay, and regression infrastructure so failures leave a trail.
• Implement deterministic replay and dry-run modes: know the blast radius before an action runs.
• Design and run evals: Pepper verifies outcomes.
• Ensure idempotency, retries, and recovery work in production, not just in tests.
• Build human-in-the-loop review workflows for high-stakes actions where the agent must pause and confirm.

Working with the Team

• Ownership and agency: shape architecture, engineering standards, product direction, and future technical hires, with room to influence the broader company.

Who you are

• High agency and bias toward action: you’re an adventurer, a doer, and a teamplayer. You form opinions, speak up, make decisions, and take a step forward under uncertainty.
• Real agent-building scars: you've shipped agent infrastructure, debugged real failures, and built systems to prevent them from recurring.
• Comfortable entering an existing codebase, forming a view of what's wrong, and becoming its owner without waiting for a roadmap.
• B2C experience: you’ve built for consumers and shipped products that real people used.