Founding Software Engineer

About the role

This is not a role where you join a finished platform and pick tickets from a backlog. You will work directly with the founders on the memory graph, ingestion pipelines, MCP/API distribution, and the surfaces people use to inspect and query their memory. Scope is wide, decisions are real, and what you ship will define the company.

You might work on

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  Core memory graph architecture, retrieval, and supersession

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  Cross-ecosystem ingestion across email, calendar, files, finance, social, and devices

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  MCP and API surfaces for connecting Cognitia memory to external AI tools

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  Memory Explorer, chat grounding, and developer-facing product flows

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  Auth, permissions, marketplace consent, and data-ownership controls

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  Infra, reliability, and internal tools that help a tiny team move faster

Probably a good fit if you

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  Have shipped production systems end to end, not just prototypes

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  Are strong in TypeScript and comfortable in Python

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  Care about product taste as much as system design

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  Want early ownership, equity, and direct founder collaboration

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  Can handle ambiguity and still ship

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  Are interested in personal AI, memory, and portable context

Who it’s not for

This is probably not a good fit if you want a narrowly scoped IC lane, a large existing team to absorb ambiguity, or a role where strategy is decided elsewhere. We need someone who can invent the work and execute it.

The goal

Help establish Cognitia as the cross-ecosystem memory layer people actually own — with real architecture, real product, and a founding imprint on how the company builds.

Stack

TypeScript, Next.js, Node, Python, Postgres, LLM APIs, MCP, cloud infra, and whatever else we need.