The Bridge W27: AI-Native Founder Residency
1wEntrepreneur First is looking for 50 AI-native founders to join The Bridge W27 in San Francisco: find a co-founder, build, ship, and scale toward a generational company.
Curated roles for people building AI products, agents and automations with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, n8n and Lovable.
Entrepreneur First is looking for 50 AI-native founders to join The Bridge W27 in San Francisco: find a co-founder, build, ship, and scale toward a generational company.
BA/BS/BE/MBA background,2-5 years in management consulting or product at B2B SaaS/data/AI companies,ability to prototype with modern AI tools,strong customer discovery and communication skills,open to Austin relocation.
5+ years engineering experience with at least 2 years in marketing/agency space; strong Python; at least one of TypeScript, SQL; ship production AI work; able to map workflows and influence without authority.
Strong engineering fundamentals, able to design data models/APIs and write maintainable code; manufacturing mindset; AI-native development experience; U.S.-based and willing to work onsite in Austin; must be U.S. Citizen/U.S. Person per 10 CFR Part 810.
Requires 4+ years of UX or product design experience, AI-assisted development fluency, codebase literacy, UX research, IA, usability testing, A/B testing, data-informed iteration, communication, and strong Figma skills.
12+ years AI/ML production experience; modern LLM stack fluency; leadership; strong English communication; ability to tie business goals to AI solutions.
5+ years leading and implementing AI, automation, MarTech or CRM solutions; 2+ years hands-on generative AI; experience with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot; orchestration tools (Make, n8n, Workato, Langflow); APIs, webhooks, REST, JSON; CRM and digital marketing platforms; strong English; ability to write technical/functional specs.
Experience shipping AI agents, workflows, or automations; Python, REST APIs, cloud serverless functions, LLM APIs, SQL, authentication, Git, and workflow automation platforms required.
Hands-on experience designing and prototyping AI solutions (LLMs, RAG, STT/TTS, NLP), building conversational/voice agents, using low-code/no-code and APIs, delivering POC/MVP demos, and strong client-facing communication in English.
3+ years software engineering experience with end-to-end ownership of production AI applications, experience with large language or multimodal models, SQL/NoSQL, frontend/backend/cloud, retrieval and agentic systems, and strong communication.
4+ years building and shipping production AI/ML systems; strong experience with LLMs/VLMs, prompt design and frontier models; production-quality coding, GPU deployments, and an M.Sc. in a technical field.
Backend-leaning, AI-native engineer owning features end-to-end with customer obsession; collaborates with founding team; comfortable across backend and frontend.
5+ years in software engineering or product management; experience with AI-powered apps and GenAI tooling; proven cross-functional leadership.