Founding Engineer
Pubblicato il 03-10-2026 - Frontier University in Firenze
Founding Engineer: Hands-On, Agent-First
Full-time from day one · Remote worldwide · Competitive salary plus meaningful equity
About FrontierU
FrontierU is building a private global community for selectively admitted young people aged 16 and over. Members connect with ambitious peers, collaborate, learn, and receive personalised AI mentorship from Socrates.
A substantial working platform and automated test suite already exist. We are hiring a hands-on CTO to take full ownership of the technology, complete the product, launch it, and run it.
The role
This is not a traditional executive role for someone who has moved away from engineering.
You will personally direct the architecture, development, integration, deployment, security, and operation of FrontierU. You will use AI agents as your primary source of engineering capacity through the agentic harness—or combination of tools—you judge best.
No particular harness is required. You will have the authority to select, combine, replace, or build the tools that produce the best results.
You may build a human engineering team where people add expertise, judgment, or operational coverage. However, FrontierU intends to remain lean. You should know how to get exceptional output from agents before solving every capacity problem through hiring.
You will work directly with the founder and have broad authority over technical execution. You will also be accountable for everything your agents produce.
Your objectives
Within your first 30 days: achieve full prototype parity. Your first objective is to finish the platform so the implemented product matches FrontierU’s approved product prototype. The prototype, discrepancy analysis, backlog, and acceptance criteria are already documented. Significant parts of the product are already built.
You will:
- Take control of the codebase, architecture, backlog, development environments, documentation, and existing agent workflows.
- Turn the remaining work into clear, independently executable