Founding Engineer

This is a founding engineering role for someone entrepreneurial who has already played a meaningful role in building a business and is ready to do it again.

Responsibilities

• Your responsibility is to radically increase the company's output using AI and strong systems thinking. You take ambiguous priorities, interrogate them until they make sense, and turn them into shipped outcomes with no surprises.
• You'll ship critical product features yourself. You move quickly, understand the product deeply, and deliver with precision.
• You'll set a very high technical and talent bar. You know what great looks like because you've operated there, you can tell the difference between genuine complexity and unnecessary drag, and you raise standards in a way others can follow.
• You operate with founder-level ownership and intensity. Shipping the wrong thing, missing obvious edge cases, or letting issues linger isn't acceptable. When something breaks, you fix it quickly, understand why, and prevent it from happening again.

The right person is intense in the best way: action-oriented, curious, direct, and embarrassed by slow delivery. You don't 22disagree and commit 22 while still confused. You ask questions until it genuinely makes sense, and you expect the same standard from the team.

You're open-minded without being passive. You can debate hard problems without ego, change your mind when the reasoning is better, and be clear when it isn't. You're honest, easy to work with under pressure, and you raise the bar simply by how you operate.

This role helps shape how engineering grows at Odin. You'll be part of the team setting the tone for how decisions are made, how trade-offs are handled, how incidents are treated, and how quickly the team moves when something matters.