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Menlo Ventures · 1 month ago

Founding Engineer - Full Stack, Backend Leaning

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$130K/yr - $180K/yr

5+ years exp

Menlo Ventures is backing NegotiateAI, a company focused on revolutionizing procurement through an AI-driven platform. The role involves building the foundational infrastructure for this platform, enabling data harmonization and optimization for enterprise procurement processes.

FinanceFinancial ServicesVenture Capital

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and architect the foundational infrastructure for NegotiateAI’s procurement platform, enabling seamless integration with ERP systems, supplier databases, and spend analytics tools

Identify key technical requirements to optimize workflows for indirect spend categorization with RAG+LLMs, unique part identification extraction, agentic AI-driven benchmarking strategies, and agentic AI negotiation automation

Define fundamental platform capabilities that streamline procurement processes, including real-time spend visibility, supplier benchmarking, and automated decision-making

Implement LLM, RAG, and Agentic AI pipelines to process and analyze large-scale procurement data, generate actionable insights, and power intelligent spend recommendations

Apply data privacy principles and implement best practices for security, including data anonymization, key obfuscation, tokenization, training models within secure sandboxes, adhering to GDPR standards, and ensuring SOC II compliance

Train LLMs and implement agentic AI tailored to procurement, creating intelligent agents that find online benchmarks, clean and triangulate dirty data to find critical part information, find contact information from suppliers online, communicate with suppliers, reduce costs, and drive measurable value for enterprises

Qualification

Full-stack engineeringAI/ML technologiesData ScienceNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLPrompt engineeringStartup experienceEnterprise client experience

Required

5+ years experience in full-stack engineering, with senior-level expertise

Experience building 0 → 1 in a startup, earlier stage the better (pre-seed, seed, series A)

Strong track record of iterating quickly on product and growing a customer base

Experience working with modern AI/ML technologies, including Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG and prompt engineering

Ability to code and iterate quickly and scrappily, with also being able to step back and architect the stack

Data Science background or familiarity (key: working with large data sets, parsing)

Hungry to build a $B+ VC-backed AI enterprise solution

Preferred

Some large company experience early in career

Experience building consumer-grade software

Experience in scaling and working with enterprise clients

Founding engineer experience at pre-seed through series A or B startup

Benefits

Pre-seed level equity grant based on cash preference

Medical, Dental, Vision

$130,000 - $180,000 a year

Plus pre-seed equity grant

Company

Menlo Ventures

Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides capital for AI, consumer, and life science technologies from seed to growth stages.

Founded in 1976

San Francisco, California, USA

11-50 employees

http://www.menlovc.com

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