Founding Engineer

📋 Description

• • **Shape the Future of AI Mentorship:** Join New Quest Ai as a Founding Engineer and play a pivotal role in building a revolutionary AI mentor that goes beyond simple assistance. We are not creating another chatbot or task-oriented assistant; we are developing a deeply personalized AI that understands users on a profound psychological level, observes their lives, and proactively intervenes to foster growth. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of applied AI, transforming cutting-edge research into a tangible product that empowers individuals.
• • **Solve Unprecedented Technical Challenges:** As a founding engineer, you will tackle some of the most complex and novel problems in AI development. This includes architecting systems for psychological profiling by analyzing digital footprints (emails, calendars, messages, behavioral patterns) to understand users beyond mere data extraction. You will also design and implement a novel memory architecture that compounds over time, moving beyond the limitations of finite context windows and mediocre vector database retrieval, potentially leveraging file-based context engineering inspired by coding agents.
• • **Drive Proactive and Agentic AI Behavior:** A core aspect of our vision is an AI mentor that doesn't just react to commands but initiates interaction at the right moment and in the right way. You will be instrumental in building the AI systems that enable proactive, agentic behavior, solving the intricate product and engineering challenges associated with making AI truly helpful and insightful without being intrusive.
• • **Craft Adaptive and Morphing User Interfaces:** You will contribute to the development of a dynamic UI that morphs and adapts based on the individual user's profile and needs. Ensuring this adaptive interface feels consistent and intuitive at scale, while powered by the same underlying AI, presents a significant and exciting engineering challenge.
• • **Build Robust Evaluation Frameworks:** Beyond creating intelligent systems, you will be responsible for building the systems that measure the AI's actual impact. This involves developing evaluation frameworks to quantify whether the mentor is genuinely facilitating user growth and behavior change, rather than just producing sophisticated-sounding output.
• • **Own Critical Product Areas:** The founding engineer role is inherently cross-functional, sitting at the intersection of AI intelligence, product development, and user experience. Your responsibilities will span the AI intelligence layer, the iOS product, the adaptive UI, and the crucial evaluation systems. Specific areas of ownership include psychological profiling systems, memory architecture design, the morphing UI layer, evaluation frameworks for measuring real behavior change, agent orchestration for multi-step AI behavior and proactive interventions, and integrating emerging iOS features like App Clips, Shortcuts, and wearable integrations.
• • **Code and Architect from Day One:** You will be writing code from your first day, directly contributing to the product. Equally important, you will be involved in making critical architectural decisions that will shape the long-term direction and technical foundation of the company. We operate with agility, shipping frequently, observing results, and iterating rapidly.
• • **Leverage AI in Your Workflow:** We practice what we preach. You will utilize AI tools to enhance your coding and development process, but with a crucial distinction: we maintain full ownership and deep understanding of our architecture and critical systems, avoiding a purely "vibe-coding" approach. Your technical contributions will be grounded in a solid architectural understanding.
• • **Impact a Generational Consumer Company:** This is an opportunity to contribute to a company with the ambition to become a generational consumer brand. If you are driven by the potential for massive impact and believe in building something truly significant, this role is for you. We are seeking individuals who are not just looking to build a product, but to build a category-defining company.
• • **Collaborate with Experienced Founders:** Work alongside repeat founders who have a proven track record, including shipping early AI agents at Google and successfully selling their first company to Google. Their experience in AI product development and scaling technology provides a strong foundation and mentorship opportunity.
• • **Embrace an Agile and Iterative Culture:** Thrive in an environment that values speed, iteration, and continuous learning. We move fast, ship code, gather feedback, and adapt. This requires a proactive mindset and a willingness to embrace change as we discover what works best.