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Onton · 5 months ago

Founding Staff Software Engineer

positionSan Francisco
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityLead/Staff
money$175K/yr - $240K/yr
date8+ years exp

Onton is on a mission to help people make decisions they love, instantly. As a Founding Engineer, you will set the strategic foundation for the Engineering Team, design and implement user-critical features, and work with a dynamic team to tackle cutting-edge problems.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)E-CommerceImage RecognitionMachine LearningProduct SearchSearch Engine
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Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Join Onton as a Founding Engineer and set the strategic foundation for our Engineering Team
Design, scope, implement, and deploy user-critical features
Work with a dynamic team of other engineers, AI researchers, and product designers tackling cutting-edge problems to create a seamless, cohesive experience for users
Build across every layer of the stack — web app, container, infrastructure, etc
Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and techniques to continually enhance our system, yourself, and the rest of the team

Qualification

Neurosymbolic AINLPMachine LearningFunctional ProgrammingGraph Engine DevelopmentSelf-directedCommunication SkillsInterpersonal Skills

Required

Have 8+ years of relevant engineering experience, preferably in fast-scaling companies
Be a self-directed generalist, capable of picking up any engineering problem and solving it, no matter how tedious
Quickly and iteratively ship code that is correct, robust, scalable, and maintainable
Exercise exceptional communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred

Enjoy giving high-level abstractions low-level performance
Have functional programming experience. If not, no problem; motivated engineers learn it quickly
Have worked with NLP and ML models before and understand their capabilities and limitations

Benefits

Relocation compensation
Tenure system

Company

Onton

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Onton is an e-commerce search engine that uses knowledge graphs and language models.
dateFounded in 2022
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size2-10 employees
web-link
https://onton.com

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$9.3M
Key Investors
Footwork
2025-11-26Seed· $7.5M
2023-10-03Pre Seed· $1.8M

Leadership Team

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Alex Gunnarson
Co-Founder
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Zach Hudson
Co-Founder
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Recent News

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Product Search Engine Onton Raises $7.5M
2025-12-01
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AI startup Onton raises $7.5M to reinvent the way the world discovers and decides what to buy
2025-11-27
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