AI Systems Builder Founding Team

Qualifications

• You'll sit next to the founder, work on real products with real customers, and learn more in 90 days than most people learn in two years

• Based in San Diego

• Comfortable with Node.js, APIs, basic backend development

• Know how to build with AI tools — Cursor, Claude, Replit

• Entrepreneurial — you get excited by problems, not just tasks

• Hungry to learn, humble enough to know you don't know everything

• A good human — we'll be spending a lot of time together

• Looking for a corporate job with clear lanes

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Benefits

• Contract to start: $20-25/hr, minimum 20 hours/week

• W2 after 90 days based on performance

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI agents and software using Cursor, Claude, Gemini and modern APIs

• Debug and iterate fast — you figure things out independently

• Connect systems, automate workflows, turn ideas into working products

• Work across multiple ventures simultaneously

• Who gets genuinely excited when something breaks because it means there's something to figure out

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Job description

This isn't a job.

It's a launchpad.

Ready to make your application Please do read through the description at least once before clicking on Apply.

To apply you must build something and send it to (details at the end of this job description).

If you don't, we won't respond.

Everything else is below.

This role requires you to be based in San Diego, CA. Remote-only applicants will not be considered....

Compound Ventures is a venture studio building AI-powered companies in real estate, finance, hospitality, personal productivity, web design and more.

We move fast, build real things, and every system we build compounds on the last.

We're looking for one person in San Diego to join as an early team member.

You'll sit next to the founder, work on real products with real customers, and learn more in 90 days than most people learn in two years.

What you'll actually do:

• Build and deploy AI agents and software using Cursor, Claude, Gemini and modern APIs

• Debug and iterate fast — you figure things out independently

• Connect systems, automate workflows, turn ideas into working products

• Work across multiple ventures simultaneously

You are: This role is for someone who stays up late building things nobody asked them to build.

Who has more ideas than time.

Who gets genuinely excited when something breaks because it means there's something to figure out.

If that's you — keep reading.

• Based in San Diego

• Comfortable with Node.js, APIs, basic backend development

• Know how to build with AI tools — Cursor, Claude, Replit

• Entrepreneurial — you get excited by problems, not just tasks

• Hungry to learn, humble enough to know you don't know everything

• A good human — we'll be spending a lot of time together

You are NOT:

• Looking for a corporate job with clear lanes

• Waiting to be told what to do

• Allergic to ambiguity

Compensation:

• Contract to start: $20-25/hr, minimum 20 hours/week

• W2 after 90 days based on performance

• Real upside if you're the right person and we build something big together - I will need COOs as the various companies prove successful and, separately, there is opportunity for equity participation in certain ventures.

To apply: Build something small and send it to us.

A script, an agent, an automation — anything that shows us how you think.

Just show your work.

It doesn’t have to be perfect - it just has to be yours.

Then, tell us in a few sentences why this opportunity resonates with you and why we should talk. xywuqvp Not a formal cover letter — just be real.

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