The Role
Build and ship AI-powered agentic workflows for complex internal audit tasks. Responsibilities include retrieval, structured extraction, citations and provenance, OCR, long-context reasoning, backend engineering, debugging, and end-to-end feature ownership. The role involves rapidly delivering production features, improving product and technical systems, and working closely with the founding team in person in San Francisco.
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About Oxus
What You'll Do
Your first three months with us
Who We're Looking For
Strong Bonuses
Why Oxus
Interview Process
Compensation
Oxus automates internal audit workflows for public and pre-IPO companies using AI. Companies including leading payroll providers, public biotechs and social media enterprises run their internal audits through Oxus.
Internal audit teams at some of the world's largest companies still spend enormous amounts of time manually gathering, reviewing, and documenting information to make sure their businesses are operating as they should. Oxus uses AI to automate this work while preserving the traceability, reviewability, and judgment that audit requires.
We’re a founding team of three MIT grads and are backed by Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Mathilde Collin, Depth Ventures, Robinhood Ventures, and more.
We're looking for a Founding Engineer to join us. No audit or accounting experience is required.
- Build agentic workflows that perform complex, multi-step audit tasks
- Work on retrieval, structured extraction, citations/provenance, OCR, and long-context reasoning across complex documents and messy enterprise data
- Own and ship features end-to-end, from idea to customers
- Diagnose issues quickly and ship fixes
- Proactively identify and suggest product and technical improvements
- Week one: Ship your first feature to production
- Month one: Own increasingly complex features end-to-end
- Quarter one: Own a meaningful surface area of the product, proactively identifying improvements and driving solutions from idea to production
- A track record of building and shipping real software, whether through work, internships, startups, or ambitious projects
- Strong Python and backend engineering skills
- Significant experience building with Claude, Codex, Cursor, agent SDKs, and other AI tools
- Moves quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality, with strong judgment about when to investigate further or ask
- Clear, proactive communicator
- Comfortable figuring things out without an established playbook
- Excited to work intensely alongside the founding team: we're an in-person team in San Francisco and typically work 9/9/6
We care much more about what you've built, how you think, and how quickly and efficiently you can execute than checking specific credential boxes.
- Experience with document AI, RAG, OCR, multimodal models, or large-scale document processing
- Experience building full-stack products
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and/or distributed systems
- Built your own products, startups, or technically ambitious side projects
- Been an early hire at a startup or worked on an early-stage team
You'll join early enough to have a meaningful impact on the product, architecture, and engineering culture. You'll work on real AI systems used in high-stakes workflows, where outputs need to be accurate, traceable, and reviewer-ready.
We're a close-knit team that works hard, moves quickly, and invests in making the experience fun. Perks include free lunch and dinner, unlimited coffee/matcha/boba, team outings and offsites, and the AI tools you need to do your best work :)
- Intro call
- Technical interview
- In-person work trial
- Offer + celebratory dinner with the team
The base pay range for this role is $150,000 – $250,000 per year.
Skills Required
- Track record of building and shipping real software through work, internships, startups, or ambitious projects
- Strong Python skills
- Strong backend engineering skills
- Significant experience building with Claude, Codex, Cursor, agent SDKs, and other AI tools
- Ability to move quickly while maintaining a high quality bar
- Strong judgment about when to investigate further or ask for help
- Clear and proactive communication skills
- Comfort working independently without an established playbook
- Willingness to work intensely with the founding team in person in San Francisco
- Experience with document AI, RAG, OCR, multimodal models, or large-scale document processing
- Experience building full-stack products
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, or distributed systems
- Experience building personal products, startups, or technically ambitious side projects
- Experience as an early startup hire or on an early-stage team
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The Company
What We Do
Oxus Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company (blank-check company) formed to pursue a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. Its stated search focus was energy-transition technologies—including battery materials, energy storage, electric-vehicle infrastructure, and advanced recycling—in emerging and frontier markets, while retaining the ability to pursue targets in any sector or geography.
