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Founding AI-Native Platform Engineer

πŸ’° $200,000 - $280,000 🌍 Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; New York, New York; Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California; undefined, California; Remote, Oregon πŸ“… 06/28/2026

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Job Description

_We’re building the AI operating system for dentistry_.

**The Platform**

DECA is the AI-native operating system for dentistry. We sit above legacy
Practice Management Systems as an intelligent control plane β€” unifying data,
orchestrating AI agents, and automating workflows across every layer of a
dental organization. Think Commure, built ground-up for dentistry.

We are not a feature. We are not a bolt-on. We are the platform.

**The Unfair Advantage**

Most pre-seed startups build in a speculative vacuum. We don’t. Our built-in
live pilot is a 7-location dental group in Texas. You ship to production on
day one.

**The Role**

You are Hire #1. Full technical ownership. No legacy codebase. No product
manager handing you specs. You architect the system every future engineer
inherits β€” working directly with the founder.

**What You’ll Build**

β€’ Local Edge Synchronizer β€” real-time bridge between cloud AI and on-premise
OpenDental

β€’ LangGraph AI agent orchestration across scheduling, billing, and clinical
workflows

β€’ Temporal Cloud workflow engine for long-running dental operations

β€’ Multi-tenant AWS platform with Aurora PostgreSQL and pgvector

β€’ HIPAA-compliant data pipelines and audit infrastructure

β€’ Next.js provider and admin dashboards

**Who You Are**

β€’ 5–8+ years of backend/distributed systems engineering

β€’ 2+ years building production LLM/agentic systems

β€’ TypeScript/NestJS and PostgreSQL as second nature

β€’ Python fluency for AI tooling

β€’ Experience with LangGraph, Temporal, or equivalent

β€’ Builder mentality β€” you read the roadmap and ship

**What You Get**

β€’ $200K–$280K base

β€’ 2.0%–4.0% equity (up to 4.0% for co-founder-adjacent profile)

β€’ 4-year vest, 1-year cliff

β€’ Remote-first, deep work culture

β€’ Direct founder access β€” no committees, no bureaucracy

β€’ The chance to define AI-native healthcare infrastructure

_If you want to own the stack that modernizes dentistry, let’s talk._