Is the Founding Engineer opening at Fenrock AI real?

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Founding Engineer

Fenrock AI

$150K–$250K · San Francisco · Full-time

The job

Fenrock AI, a two-person Y Combinator Winter 2026 company founded by Charu Sharma, builds AI agents for bank and credit union back-office operations. The founding engineer builds the product directly with the founders and owns major technical decisions from the start.

Good fit if

Open to any experience level, new graduates included.
Fintech, health tech or enterprise software experience is a plus rather than a requirement.
Work authorization: the posting states it will sponsor.

Condensed from the employer's official posting.

Heads upFenrock has posted this description twice, under both a full-stack and a backend title, with identical text. Ask which team you would be joining.

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Source & verification

Found on ycombinator.com and listed here on 2026-08-23 with a link back. Nobody submitted it to us, NextShark is not affiliated with Fenrock AI, and we don't verify the role, the pay or the outcome. · Listed Aug 23

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