The Role:

We're building Subtrace: an AI-native layer that automatically captures tasks activity and reconstructs it as structured process data: tasks, workflows, bottlenecks, and automation candidates. No integrations. No manual modeling. Just a the data layer that understands work.

As our Founding Engineer, you're not joining a team - you're building it. You own the core architecture, make the hard technical calls, and ship things that work. This is a zero-to-one role.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity

• Strong background in one or more of: computer vision, real-time video/screen processing, ML inference pipelines, or event stream processing

• Experience with Python (core stack) and TypeScript (optional but valued)

• Comfortable with ambiguity you can take a problem statement and produce a working prototype

• Ability to design systems that are modular and scalable from day one

• You've shipped production software end-to-end, not just contributed to it

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with OCR, UI element detection, or activity recognition

• Familiarity with process mining concepts (event logs, Petri nets, conformance checking)

• RPA tooling knowledge (UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or similar)

• Prior experience at an early-stage startup (pre-Series A)

Responsibilities:

• Core capture engine: screen recording, click/input detection, visual diffing

• AI pipeline: segmentation of raw activity into tasks, steps, and variants

• Data model: schema for tasks, workflows, process trees, and metadata

• Infrastructure: real-time processing, storage, and API layer

• Hiring bar: your code sets the standard for every engineer who joins after you

Why this role:

• Founding equity not token options, real co-founder-adjacent stake

• Full technical ownership from day one

• Direct line to the CEO no layers, no bureaucracy

• Solving a problem that hasn't been cracked without integrations or log access

• Munich-based team, remote-flexible