# Founding Engineer

- Company: [Hobbes](<https://jobstar.asia/company/hobbes>)
- Location: San Francisco
- Team: Engineering
- Employment type: Full Time
- Posted: April 13, 2026

## Job description

Hobbes is a self-improving agent that runs product demos today and full sales conversations soon. Arjun (CTO) and Chirag (CEO) are the team today. You'd be the second engineer: real-time voice, generative UI that redraws itself based on who's watching, custom LLM orchestration, eval loops that actually move the needle. The roadmap isn't written. You'll help write it.

## About Hobbes

A company's most valuable asset is the conversation it has with a buyer. Most B2B websites lose that conversation at the "request a demo" form. Hobbes runs real, conversational product demos 24/7. That's Phase 1. The real bet is a self-improving agentic layer that runs the revenue side of a business.

Every conversation a prospect has with the agent is logged, measured, and fed back into the product. Five prospects tell Hobbes they want to buy but need Hubspot integrated as a non-starter? Hobbes creates the PR autonomously and updates those prospects that it's ready to go-live.

We have secured $6M in funding and have tripled since February, mostly on inbound. One customer 2x'd their revenue within 8 weeks of deploying Hobbes. Another closed a deal within 2-hours of Hobbes going live on their site.

## What you'll build

* The agent. LLM orchestration, conversation flow, tool use, voice.
* Generative UI that adapts in real time to what the prospect cares about.
* The eval loop. Demos get smarter without manual intervention.
* The platform customers use to configure, review, and tune their agent.
* And yes: CSS, migration scripts, customer debugging. Early-stage means all of it.

## What we're looking for

* You've shipped LLM systems to production and can talk about what broke and what you did about it.
* You move fast without creating hidden problems. You've also killed features that weren't working.
* You take ownership without being asked.

## Comp

* **Base:** $180-230K
* **Equity:** Founding-caliber
* **Location:** In-person, San Francisco

## Process

4 rounds: Arjun, Chirag, async case study, paid 3-day work trial in the office. About 2 weeks from first conversation to offer.

## Apply

[Apply on Hobbes](<https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hobbes/f5dc9eed-13c8-40e6-b6c3-b4c38d2df30b>)

Canonical job page: <https://jobstar.asia/job/founding-engineer-hobbes-san-francisco-5071fbfdcbc75962>
