ROLE SPECIFICATION // HTDCMY•ACTIVELY_INTERVIEWINGYC COHORT // YC W25
Founding Product Engineer
YC
Y Combinator Verified IngestionYC W25
Direct from Bild AI Founders • Work at a Startup Feed
Mandatory Verified Compensation & Equity Range
Guaranteed Base Salary$180k - $260kUSD / YEAR • RADICAL TRANSPARENCY
Direct Equity Grant0.5% - 1.75%STANDARD 4-YR VEST // 1-YR CLIFF
Anti-Ghosting SLA< 24 HoursHEARTBEAT VERIFIED LIVE
Production Stack Specification
AI
The Engineering Mission & Technical Challenges
Bild AI is actively building and expanding its engineering team.
Current Core Deliverables:
• Architect resilient distributed pipelines and optimize query response times under high concurrency.
• Eliminate bottleneck latency across asynchronous task workers and external API relays.
• Implement robust regression testing and automated deployment checks.
• Collaborate directly with founding leadership on core feature roadmap and architecture.
Transparent Interview Roadmap
1
Founding Engineering Screen30m
Conversational review covering past engineering architecture, open-source work, and system design philosophy.
2
Technical Deep Dive & Architecture60m
Interactive system design review examining concurrency, database schema boundaries, and latency tradeoffs.
3
Compensated 1-Day Trial PR1 Day
Paid real-world trial PR implementing a scoped production feature or debugging a subsystem in staging.
4
Formal Transparent Offer Lock24h
Definitive offer with guaranteed base salary and transparent equity allocation.
APPLICATION PROTOCOL: BUILDER DOSSIER