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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Waystation AI'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Waystation AI

- **Company:** Waystation AI
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/waystation/103f4efb-1dbc-4f3a-a674-825386968dd9

## Job description

Waystation AI | Redwood City, CA (in person, 5 days/week) | Full-time Own whole product areas end to end, on a growing engineering team where something customer-visible ships every week.

## About Waystation

CPG is a $2 trillion market in the U.S., and the manufacturers behind it still run procurement out of email and spreadsheets. Waystation turns supplier email into a structured system of record — every quote, spec, COA, and PO extracted automatically — then gives procurement, QA, and R&D a platform to compare ingredients, track certifications, and draft supplier comms on top of it. Seed-stage, venture-backed, with paying customers including national bakery, supplement, and better-for-you brands. One customer saved over $200,000 in the first three months. Led by repeat founder Ryan Caldbeck (previously CircleUp); backed by Founder Collective, Homebrew, Slow Ventures, 87 Capital, Floodgate, and SuccessVP.

## What you'll own

- Whole product areas, end to end. Supplier comparison, cert tracking, quote workflows. Backend, interface, and the follow-through after launch — not tickets.
- Impact you can point to. One of six engineers and growing, at a company with real customers and a market measured in trillions. What you ship this month shows up in a renewal conversation next month, and there's no layer between you and that.
- A weekly shipping cadence. Rough and working beats perfect and late. Then you come back and make it right.
- AI as product. Extraction, comparison, drafting, retrieval. Including the unglamorous parts: evals, fallbacks, and what to do when the model is confidently wrong.
- The customer's actual problem. You'll be on customer calls. Requirements don't arrive pre-chewed.
- Quality that holds. When something breaks, you fix the system, not the symptom.

## What we're looking for

We'll back the right engineer over the right résumé.

- 5+ years building production software, with real depth across the stack.
- 2+ years at an early-stage startup (seed to Series B) — required. No playbook, no infrastructure handed to you. A purely big-company background isn't a fit.
- You love building product. The one we won't compromise on. You care what it feels like to use and you have opinions about the interface. If you'd rather be handed a spec than help write one, this will frustrate you.
- Fluent in AI, both directions. You build with it — we live in Claude Code — and you ship model-powered features reliable enough to sell.
- You communicate with precision. An engineer, a customer, and the CEO all leave knowing what you decided and why.
- You close things. Messy problems start to finish, and you flag slippage before it slips.
- You're all in. Small team, office five days a week, rocket ship you plant a flag on — not a stepping stone.

Bonus: B2B SaaS in workflow-heavy industries; email, documents, or messy unstructured data; CPG, supply chain, or procurement; search and retrieval; multi-language data (Chinese, Spanish). Not the role for you if

- You want a defined lane and a clean backlog.
- You need finished design and product specs before you start.
- You'd choose architectural elegance over what ships this week.
- Five days a week in Redwood City, customer calls, and the occasional plant floor in a hairnet don't appeal.

## What we offer

Competitive base salary and meaningful equity. Full health, dental, and vision. Unlimited vacation. Direct work with a repeat founder and CEO, and a front-row seat to how an AI-native company gets built. Values We are reliable, credible, and authentic. We are solution-oriented. We are proud of our work, our customers, and ourselves. How to apply Skip the cover letter. Send two things:

- Something you built that you're proud of. What was true before, what you built, what was true after.
- A product call you got wrong. What you believed, what happened, what you changed.

Short is fine. We're reading for ownership and judgment, not polish. We move in days, not weeks.

## About Waystation AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Waystation AI is an AI-powered procurement intelligence platform that transforms unstructured email workflows into actionable sourcing data for mid-market CPG companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (early-stage startup)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: Year not publicly available
- **Founders**: Ryan Caldbeck (Founder & CEO); founding team includes Arun Srinivasan, Rohan Dalal, Susy Manrique

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-enabled supply chain software for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry, specifically food, beverage, supplement, and pet food manufacturing.
- **Target customers**: B2B mid-market CPG companies, co-manufacturers, and consulting firms — serving procurement, R&D, quality, and operations teams.
- **Mission/purpose**: “Empower visionary teams to bring exceptional products into the world” by unlocking the hidden margin trapped in email-based sourcing.

## Products & Services
- **[Waystation Platform](https://www.waystationai.com/)**: SaaS platform that connects to a company’s inbox, automatically extracts pricing, specs, certifications, lead times, and COAs from supplier emails, and structures them into a searchable, actionable database. Supports the full sourcing lifecycle: spot buys, RFPs, quotes, validation, and compliance.
- **Key features**: AI-driven quote comparison tables, document and certificate management with expiration tracking, audit trails, version control, and collaboration across procurement, quality, R&D, and operations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Headcount of 5 employees (as of mid-2025); claims an annualized ROI <45 days and 25%+ secondary supplier coverage for customers.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Customer case study (Gold Coast Bakery) achieved 11.7% avg per-ingredient savings, paid for annual contract in first 30 days, and cut RFP cycles 50%.
  - Reported that customers run 2–3× more RFPs with the same team.
  - Website traffic ~2,000 monthly visits (global rank ~7.9M), 100% from United States.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Zero-supplier change required**: Integrates via email without forcing suppliers onto a new portal — a key adoption moat.
- **AI-native extraction**: Automatically structures data from email threads and attachments (quotes, COAs, spec sheets, certifications) into a centralized system of record.
- **Audit-ready by default**: Expirations flagged weeks in advance; complete version-controlled audit trail without manual effort.
- **Fast onboarding**: Claimed two business days to go from supplier list to live dashboard.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen penetration in mid-market food & beverage CPG, co-manufacturers, and PE-backed portfolio companies.
- Continue building "answer-shaped software" that directly answers procurement, quality, and CFO questions rather than providing dashboards.
- Expand capabilities for R&D teams (real-time spec access, ingredient comparison) and executives (gross margin improvement, supply risk visibility).

## Why Work Here
- **Early-stage impact**: Small team (5 people) means high ownership, direct influence on product and strategy, and ability to shape the company's direction.
- **Mission-driven**: Focus on solving a concrete, painful problem for CPG companies — unlocking margin from email chaos.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not publicly stated, but headquarters is in Redwood City, CA; likely in-office or hybrid given small team size.
- **Culture**: Stated building philosophy — “If a feature can’t be tied to a decision, it doesn’t ship” — suggests a pragmatic, outcome-oriented engineering culture.
- **Notable perks**: Not disclosed; typical for an early-stage startup.

## Sources
1. [waystationai.com](https://www.waystationai.com/)
2. [waystationai.com/about](https://www.waystationai.com/about/)
3. [waystationai.com/faq](https://www.waystationai.com/faq/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/waystation-ai-inc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/waystation-ai-inc)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/waystation](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/waystation)

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