# Founding Engineer

> Heard · United States (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-05

**Salary:** USD 100,000–140,000

**Workplace:** remote

## Description

Heard (heard.dev) gives AI agents a voice, so people can work alongside them the way they work with a great teammate. We're growing fast, and we're hiring our very first engineer.

The role: Founding Engineer

\- Design and build agentic systems: agents that observe, decide what matters, and act

\- Bring real AI/ML depth: LLMs, speech, real-time models, evals, the stuff that makes agents actually good

\- Architect for scale, from a few hundred power users to millions of agents talking to their humans

\- Shape the product and help grow the company, not just the codebase

SF / NYC / Toronto / remote (US and Canada). $100k-140k + 0.5-2% equity.

## Requirements

You might be a fit if:

\- You've built with LLMs or agents in production, not just demos

\- You have an AI/ML background, or you've gone deep enough that it doesn't matter

\- You've scaled something real, and have great taste with product

\- You want to own outcomes, not tickets

Bonus tip: try Heard (heard.dev/download) and send your top 3 pieces of product feedback with your application to founders@heard.dev. Our founder reads every one, and it's the fastest way to stand out.

## Apply

[Apply at Heard](https://apply.workable.com/heard/j/8D54C307DE/apply)

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