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Founding Product Engineer (Systems & UX)

Candid Intelligence

Candid Intelligence

Product, Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 150k-200k / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 4, 2026

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Software Engineering

Compensation

  • $150K – $200K • 0.5% – 1.5%
  • Unlimited PTO: We believe great work requires recharging.

  • Comped Meals: Receive free lunch and dinner to eat with your teammates daily at the office

  • Insurance: Generous health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision.

  • Health and Wellness Budget: We provide up to $150/mo reimbursement for health and
    wellness spending, such as gym memberships, fitness classes, or similar.

What We’re Building

Candid is building the software that industrial engineers use to run and review pre-construction workflows for compute and energy infrastructure.
These tools support decisions that cost millions of dollars, so they need to be fast, inspectable, and safe to use in production.

What You’ll Do

  • Build high-quality React/TypeScript interfaces for viewing, editing, and overriding AI-generated workflows.

  • Design backend systems that support secure execution, stateful workflows, and large-scale document ingestion.

  • Build feedback loops that turn user interactions into structured signals for improving the AI.

  • Own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.

Tech Stack

  • React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Next.js

  • Python (FastAPI), Postgres/Supabase, Redis

  • AWS, Docker, CI/CD

Desirable Quirks

  • Opinionated about UX, interaction design, and system boundaries

  • Keeps components modular and APIs clean

  • Cringes at clunky UIs or inefficient backend queries

  • Has good intuition for how humans should interact with complex systems

  • Cares about building tools that feel polished, calm, and serious

Desirable Experience

(any of these will pique our interest)

  • Built complex, interactive web products (editors, internal tools, canvases)

  • Early or founding engineer at a YC-backed company

  • Experience shipping production software used by technical users

  • Technical founder at a VC-backed startup

Compensation Range: $150K - $200K