Founding Engineer

Positive Carbon builds AI-powered sensors to measure food waste in commercial kitchens. They are hiring their first in-house engineer to own the platform end-to-end, including data pipeline, analytics, dashboards, and AI features. The role involves transitioning from an external development partner and setting technical direction.

• Own the Positive Carbon platform end to end: the food-waste capture pipeline, the data and analytics layer, and the dashboards customers use to find and reduce wasted-food cost.
• Turn raw measurement into financial insight waste value by site, category and meal period.
• Build AI into the product as a first-class capability, not a bolt-on: agents and LLM pipelines for enrichment, reporting, anomaly detection and operational recommendations.
• Use AI aggressively in how you build. We expect a small team to ship like a much larger one.
• Stand up the engineering foundations we'll need to scale: CI/CD, observability, data quality and a sane release process.
• Transition us cleanly off the agency setup without disrupting live customers.

• Startup or founding experience (must-have)
• Strong full-stack experience across backend, frontend and data
• A track record of shipping production software that real customers rely on
• Genuine fluency with modern AI tooling you build with LLMs and agents and have opinions on where they help and where they don't
• Pragmatism over perfection: you scope hard, ship, and iterate
• Comfort being the technical owner when there's no one else to ask
• Computer vision, IoT/edge or data-pipeline experience
• Experience as a founding engineer or very early hire
• Interest in the climate and food-systems problem

• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Bike to work
• 25 Days Annual Leave
• Hybrid Work