Software Engineer
San Francisco, CAFull-time$130–280K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Job overview
Simple AI is seeking founding software engineers to build the core systems behind its voice agents. The role spans product development, customer-facing features, latency and reliability improvements, internal tools, debugging, and platform scaling. Engineers work closely with product and customers, take ownership of substantial parts of the system, and build technology intended to affect customer revenue. The company is based in San Francisco and offers equity and employee benefits.
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Full job description
About Simple Simple AI builds voice AI agents that help businesses grow revenue. Our customers include Omaha Steaks, DoorDash, and Renewal by Andersen. Our agents qualify leads, book appointments, take orders, and upsell, turning phone conversations into revenue opportunities. Simple AI raised $14M from world-class investors and operators like Y Combinator, First Harmonic, Massive Tech Ventures, Michael Seibel, Jared Friedman, Alexandr Wang, Matt Van Horn, Suhail Doshi, and Scott Wu.
The Team The founders (Catheryn and Zach) met while running software teams at YC, where they shipped tons of new products for YC founders, including YC’s co-founder matching site. Cat previously worked at Instagram and Facebook and earned degrees in math and computer science at MIT. Zach previously studied computer science and statistics at U Chicago and led software at PEAK6. We have grown into a strong team of 20+ and are continuing to scale quickly.
About the Role We are looking for founding software engineers to help us build the core systems behind Simple AI’s voice agents. You will work across product to make our agents faster, more reliable, and more capable in real production environments. This is a high-ownership engineering role. You will ship customer-facing features, improve latency and reliability, build internal tools, debug complex edge cases, and help us scale the platform as customer demand grows. Engineers here work close to the product and close to customers. You should be excited to move fast, own large parts of the system, and build technology that directly impacts revenue for businesses using Simple.
What We Offer
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Competitive salary & meaningful equity
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Employee-friendly equity terms
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An office located in SF
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Health, dental & vision insurance
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Free lunch & dinner at the office
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Late night Ubers
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Regular team events & offsites
What You'll Need
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4+ years of relevant work experience.
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Strong problem-solving skills and enthusiasm for addressing technical challenges.
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A customer-first mindset with strong communication skills and interest in product design and prioritization.
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Self-motivated and able to work independently.
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Passion about learning and keeping up with latest AI advancements.
Nice To Have
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Previous experience with prompt engineering or working with AI/LLM-based platforms.
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Experience as an early-stage startup engineer or founder.
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Experience with TypeScript, React, Python, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS.
If you’re excited to build, take ownership, and help shape an early-stage AI company, we’d love to chat. Please note: At this time, Simple AI is unable to provide employment visa sponsorship for this role. We appreciate your interest and understanding.
How this job compares
Set against the 39,070 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$130–280K/yr
- California median$163–243K/yr6,931 salary ranges
- US median$132–214K/yr31,457 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $205K, is close to the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 8,516 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 39,070 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (32,286 postings).
- Education
- 12,141 of the 39,070 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Software Engineer jobs
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