Technical Co-Founder - Applied AI Systems

About Red6.ai
Red6.ai helps businesses turn complex operational problems into reliable AI-powered systems.
We work across document workflows, voice agents, backend integrations, workflow automation and multi-agent systems. We are closing new contracts, expanding into multiple verticals and seeing strong momentum.

Our founding team brings product, commercial and technical experience, along with networks spanning Stanford, BITS Pilani across US and Canada. We are now looking for a deeply technical third co-founder who can take complete ownership of engineering and help us build the company for the long term.

This is not a CTO-in-name role. We are not looking for someone who not only reviews architecture or manages other engineers but also spend most of your time designing, building, shipping and speaking directly with customers.

What you will own
You will own the journey from a loosely defined client problem to a dependable production system.

This will include:

• Joining customer calls and understanding how their business actually works.
• Turning ambiguous requirements into clear technical designs and delivery plans.
• Architecting and building frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data pipelines and AI workflows.
• Building document-processing systems, voice agents, enterprise integrations and multi-agent orchestration.
• Creating evaluation systems, guardrails, fallbacks, monitoring and human-review paths so our AI systems work reliably outside a demo.
• Making practical decisions about where AI is useful and where deterministic software is the better answer.
• Owning deployments, production incidents, security, documentation and engineering quality.
• Challenging technical or commercial assumptions when you disagree.
• Hiring and developing the engineering team as we grow.
• Helping shape the company’s technical direction, culture and long-term strategy.

Who we are looking for
You may be a good fit if you have:

• At least five years of meaningful software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence that you can independently build and operate complex systems.
• Strong experience across frontend, backend architecture, databases, cloud infrastructure and production operations.
• Hands-on experience building applied-AI or LLM systems—not only prototypes or API wrappers but end-end multi agent architectures across modalities.
• A record of taking products or customer workflows from zero to production.
• Experience with document AI, voice systems, workflow automation, agentic systems or enterprise integrations.
• Strong system-design and debugging skills.
• The ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical customers.
• Experience leading engineers, or the ability and interest to build a team from the ground up.
• The willingness to remain hands-on even after the team grows.
• The ability to commit full-time and work from Hyderabad for the long term.

A strong academic background from institutions such as IIT, BITS or other Tier-1 colleges is a plus, but it is not a filter. What you have personally built, owned and learned matters more than the college name.

How we like to work
We take the work seriously without making the workplace unnecessarily heavy.

We are looking for someone who:

• Is calm and dependable when delivery becomes difficult.
• Can disagree openly without making disagreements personal.
• Gives bad news early instead of hiding problems.
• Has low ego and high ownership.
• Can debate a decision, commit once it is made and move forward as one team.
• Is comfortable with ambiguity and does not need a perfectly written specification before starting.
• Cares about customer outcomes, not only interesting technology.
• Brings a relaxed, grounded energy while maintaining high standards.
• Wants to build one company over the long term, rather than treat this as a temporary experiment or side project.

The first three months
We do not believe a few interviews are enough to choose a co-founder.
We will therefore begin with a paid, full-time mutual-fit working period of up to three months. You will work with us on a small number of representative client and internal projects.

Before starting, we will agree on measurable outcomes covering:

• Technical judgment and architecture.
• Ability to ship working production systems.
• Reliability, testing and failure handling.
• Customer communication.
• Ownership and follow-through.
• Founder chemistry and ability to handle conflict.
• A practical plan for scaling the engineering function.

This is a two-way evaluation. You should use the period to understand us, our customers and whether this is the company you want to build.

If all three founders want to continue, we will formalize the Technical Co-Founder role and equity package. Equity will be subject to an agreed vesting schedule, IP assignment, governance arrangements, departure terms and legal documentation.

Selection process

• Founder and values conversation.
• Deep dive into one or two systems you personally shipped.
• Architecture and AI-reliability working session using a realistic problem.
• Reference checks.
• Paid three-month mutual-fit period.
• Final role, cash compensation, equity and governance agreement.

When applying

Please tell us:

• Where you are currently based and whether you can work from Hyderabad.
• Why you want to become a co-founder at this stage of your career.
• About one or two systems you personally took to production.
• What went wrong while building them and how you handled it.
• How you measured whether the system was reliable.
• When you could commit full-time.