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Software Engineer

Simple AI

San Francisco, CAFull-time$130–280K/yrSeen 4 days agoStill listed 4 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$130–280K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Simple AI is hiring founding software engineers to build the core systems behind its voice agents. The role spans customer-facing features, latency and reliability improvements, internal tools, and platform scaling. Engineers work closely with product and customers, take ownership of large parts of the system, and build technology that directly affects customer businesses. The company works from its San Francisco office and offers salary, equity, insurance, meals, and team events.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Problem SolvingCommunicationProduct DesignProduct PrioritizationIndependent WorkPrompt EngineeringAI/LLM PlatformsTypeScriptReactPythonRuby on RailsPostgreSQLAWS

Qualifications

4+ Years Relevant Work ExperienceEarly-Stage Startup Engineer or Founder Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance

Full job description

About Simple Simple AI is building state of the art voice AI agents for enterprise. Our realistic agents help iconic businesses like Doordash, xAI, and Omaha Steaks handle all kinds of phone operations, from customer support to order intake to lead qualifications. We are growing revenue like crazy and looking to hire a couple founding software engineers to help us stay afloat of current customer demand and also build out systems for the future. We are very excited about the potential for AI to change the world, and work out of our SF based office. 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

  • Competitive salary & meaningful equity

  • Employee-friendly equity terms

  • An office located in SF

  • Health, dental & vision insurance

  • Free lunch & dinner at the office

  • Late night Ubers

  • Regular team events & offsites

What You'll Need

  • 4+ years of relevant work experience.

  • Strong problem-solving skills and enthusiasm for addressing technical challenges.

  • A customer-first mindset with strong communication skills and interest in product design and prioritization.

  • Self-motivated and able to work independently.

  • Passion about learning and keeping up with latest AI advancements.

Nice To Have

  • Previous experience with prompt engineering or working with AI/LLM-based platforms.

  • Experience as an early-stage startup engineer or founder.

  • Experience with TypeScript, React, Python, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS.

If you are excited to shape the visual identity of a fast-growing AI company, we would 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 34,049 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$130–280K/yr
  • California median$165–246K/yr7,355 salary ranges
  • US median$140–220K/yr27,214 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 9,132 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 34,049 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 27,553 postings).
Education
12,602 of the 34,049 open Software Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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