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Foam

Full Stack Founding Engineer

CompanyFoam
Websitefoam.ai
RoleFull Stack Founding Engineer
Typefull-time
Role taxonomyFull-stack / Product Engineering
SpecialtiesFull-stack
LocationSF
Salary
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TechML/AI
Parsed locationsSF
Posted bylukemercado
PostedNov 3, 2025
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Original posting

foam.ai | Full Stack Founding Engineer | SF (onsite) | Full Time At foam we’re building the first telemetry and production system designed for LLMs, giving them complete visibility into and control over running software. Today we’re making money by fixing bugs as they happen, tomorrow we’re the data layer for all production observability tooling. * We’re a six person team. Perla (CEO) was the 5th engineer in the consumer facing team at Affirm (pre-IPO). Shawn Krisman (CTO) was an early engineer at Yelp, Reddit, Patreon and architect at Affirm (pre-IPO). * We've raised $8.4M in seed funding from Khosla Ventures, Max Levchin, The House Fund, and South Park Commons * We’ve got active betas at Perplexity, Orb, Braintrust, Plaid & TogetherAI. If being #7 is exciting; reach out: send an email to luke -at- foam dot ai with your resume and mention you came from HN