Founding Engineer (Fullstack TypeScript)
Cluely, San Francisco
- Pay
- $250K – $350K • 0.25% – 0.5%
- Work type
- Onsite
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- Apr 28, 2025
About the role
About Cluely
Cluely is building AI to give you an unfair advantage in every situation.
It acts as a desktop assistant that takes in screen, mic, and audio context to give you information and suggestions that existing model providers cannot, due to a lack of context.
We will win for two reasons:
1) Chatbots are not the best interface for multi-modal AI
2) We can make anything viral
About the Role
We work six days a week in-person in San Francisco, 10-12 hours a day.
You are expected to live within a block of the office (housing provided).
The entire codebase is strictly typed (no ts-ignore or anys). We use Bun, Elysia https://elysiajs.com, and strictly typed routes.
You might be a good fit if you are:
- One of the best engineers in the world
- Strong fullstack engineer (React/Electron/Infra experience) - You should know how to efficiently fetch and cache data in a React application - You should know how to design and structure database schemas that optimize read and write performance - You should be comfortable deploying and scaling applications and be able to weigh pros and cons of different infra/devops solutions - I will sanity check all of the above in an interview with you
- Down to gamble your life into greatness
Compensation:
- Founding engineers get anywhere from $250k-$350k base + 0.25-0.5% equity
- We also offer free food
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