SECTION I · THE BRIEF
Brief #84214Updated 22 AUG 2026SAN FRANCISCO, CAAshbyY COMBINATOR
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Founding Engineer

Compresr is a platform that compresses text for LLMs, saving tokens and costs, and includes an API, a Python SDK & adjustable compression.

Location
San Francisco, CA
Company size
2–10
Posted
2w ago
Via
Ashby
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Founding Engineer

Compresr· San FranciscoView company profile


Job title
Founding Engineer
Job location
San Francisco
Job description

Type: Full-time permanent contract or an Internship with a potential follow-up offer

Location: San Francisco or remote with future relocation to San Francisco (sponsored)

Start: ASAP

About us

  • We're building state-of-the-art context compression. Our mission is to become the "Cloudflare for LLMs" — a compression layer embedded into most LLM pipelines by default.

  • We're a team of ex-EPFL MSc/PhDs from dlab. We started by publishing papers, then got into YC and started making money helping companies cut their LLM costs.

  • We run the business like a research lab: form hypotheses, kill the ones that don't work, double down on the ones that do.

About you:

  • A cracked full-stack engineer who enjoys a high-paced startup environment, takes pride in what they build and owns it end to end.

  • Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, deployment, and production systems on AWS.

  • Python/basic ML Ops skills. Experience in scaling AI infra products is a plus.

  • Proactive, strong communicator with fast response time, team player

Tech Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals

  • Experience with concurrency and distributed systems

  • Experience deploying and scaling production backend services on AWS

  • Ability to work across systems (Python + light frontend)

  • Excellent Claude Code (or similar) user

Nice to have

  • Open-source contributions

  • Startup experience

  • OAuth / API auth flows

Stack

  • Backend: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL (Supabase), Redis, AWS

  • Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript

  • Tools: GitHub, Docker, Sentry, GitHub Actions

Interview process

1. Intro call (20 min)

2. Practical technical interview (60 min)

3. Cultural interview (30 min)

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Where this role is based

San Francisco, CA

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Compresr headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Company size

210 employees

Founded

2026

Total raised

$500,000

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Funding rounds