About the role
structured by ORIMeticulateMaking it easy for B2B sales teams to send stellar outboundFounding Engineer #2$130K - $200K•0.50% - 2.00%•San Francisco, CA, USJob typeFull-timeRoleEngineering, Full stackExperienceAny (new grads ok)VisaUS citizen/visa onlyConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›Joseph…
What you will do
- Work closely with co-founders Joseph + Wilbur and the engineering team.
- Build across the codebase, from spinning up infra to placing pixels on the frontend.
- Create “non-traditional” data streams on companies and people / derive useful structured data from unstructured text.
- Build robust infrastructure for sending outbound messages that can scale to the level that our customers operate at.
- Figure out how the outreach engine can use non-traditional selling channels (SMS, direct mail) in addition to emails & phone calls.
Nice to have
- Love to work with new technologies and are excited about solving challenging and unfamiliar technical problems
- Work hard and take pride in your work
- Thrive in a fast-paced small team/startup environment
- Enjoy building transformational tools for a fast-paced customer set
Before you apply
- US citizen/visa only
- Screen → coding → behavioral → work trial → decision
Full posting text
MeticulateMaking it easy for B2B sales teams to send stellar outboundFounding Engineer #2$130K - $200K•0.50% - 2.00%•San Francisco, CA, USJob typeFull-timeRoleEngineering, Full stackExperienceAny (new grads ok)VisaUS citizen/visa onlyConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›Joseph PalakapillyCTOJoseph PalakapillyCTOAbout the roleWe’re hiring a second Founding Engineer!
You’ll be team member #5, working closely with co-founders Joseph + Wilbur and our engineering team and you’ll have significant ownership over the parts of the product you want to cover. As an early engineer, you will be all over the codebase, from spinning up infra to placing pixels on the frontend. We think we’ll be the strongest team you've ever been a part of -- if you're a killer engineer, would love to chat!
Ideally you: Love to work with new technologies and are excited about solving challenging and unfamiliar technical problems Work hard and take pride in your work Thrive in a fast-paced small team/startup environment (we’re in-person in San Francisco) Enjoy building transformational tools for a fast-paced customer set Some of the open technical problems that we could use your help with: Creating “non-traditional” data streams on companies and people / deriving useful structured data from unstructured text A system that learns preferences from sparse customer product interactions (overrides, upvotes/downvotes) and automatically iterates towards better messaging Building robust infrastructure for sending outbound messages that can scale to the level that our customers operate at (many thousands / day, 100k’s of LLM calls/day) Figuring out how our outreach engine can use non-traditional selling channels (SMS, direct mail) in addition to emails & phone calls to give our customers a competitive advantage Our tech stack includes: Python, React (Typescript), Postgres, MongoDB, AWS, + a lot of LLM pipeline stuff that we can chat about Some of the aspects of building at Meticulate that we love and hopefully excite you too: Tackling complex problems that could never done before LLMs Re-imagining what great UI/UX looks like for agent-native products Working with the strongest technical team we’ve all ever been a part of Shipping very fast and seeing customers love the product A lively in-person atmosphere in our founder apartment office in SF Founder backgrounds Joseph: Berkeley EECS → NLP Research Scientist → Startup Engineer at multiple Series A/B startups Wilbur: MIT CS → McKinsey → Commercial Strategy & Sales Operations at Series E startup About the interview Screen → coding → behavioral → work trial → decision Should take 1-3 weeks total (depending on work trial scheduling)!
About MeticulateMeticulate is an AI-native prospecting engine for B2B sales teams. We make it simple to send stellar outbound messaging at scale. Instead of using boilerplate campaigns, Meticulate codifies your rules and messaging strategy (e.g. “CFOs want to hear an ROI calc upfront”) and combines it with deep prospect research to draft sequences for every prospect from scratch. We’re serving leading GTM teams today (incl OpenAI, Noda, ThreeKit), and are backed by leading AI investors: Y Combinator, Link, Cervin Ventures.
MeticulateFounded:2024Batch:W24Team Size:5Status:ActiveLocation:San Francisco FoundersWilbur Li CEOWilbur Li CEOJoseph Palakapilly CTOJoseph Palakapilly CTO