About Forma Engine

FORMA Engine is building the interface layer for the AI era—interfaces that adapt in real time while keeping people in control. We orchestrate live AI output, adaptive UI patterns, and ethical design to make experiences transparent, explainable, and human-centered. 

The objective is to help AI-native teams ship software that feels unmistakably yours while staying true to the product’s vision. We imagine interfaces that learn your rhythm, explain their choices, and adapt with consent—so assistance scales from a gentle nudge to side-by-side collaboration, always reversible and accountable. Personalization should lower cognitive load, preserve authorship, and respect team guardrails; it should be transparent in the moment and inclusive by default.

Ready to join this journey?

Your Role

You’ll be the first technical leader and a hands-on builder. You’ll own technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of FORMA’s runtime and developer-facing UI library. This is a co-founder track role for an entrepreneurial engineer who wants to shape the product, team, and culture from scratch. 

Your Responsibilities

• Architect & ship v0→v1: Set core technical foundations, shape the product architecture, and deliver the first release.

• Real-time foundations: Live data, shared state, and event handling.

• AI integration: Productionize model-backed features with orchestration, evaluation, and safeguards.

• Explainability & reliability: Build user-visible explanations and developer-visible observability from day one.

• Security & tenancy: Auth/permissions, data isolation, and audit.

• Team-building: Shape the organization and culture, codify ops and working rituals, and hire the first engineers.

• Developer experience: Ship an SDK, docs, and demo apps that show value.

Who You Are

• Experience building and scaling complex products; startup experience a plus

• Fluent in TypeScript/React and at least one of Node.js, Go, Python, or Rust

• Designed, tested, and scaled LLM/agent systems in production

• Systems thinker; designs event-driven services and streaming; resilient APIs

• Care for Accessibility: WCAG 2.2, ARIA, keyboard-first

• Experienced with Design system + Storybook; tokens & theming

• Strong UX sensibility; human-centered design

• Ethical mindset; explainability, safety, user agency in AI UX

• Calm leader; hires and mentors early engineers; raises the bar

• Clear communicator; writes well; async by default; keeps momentum

• Nice to have experience:

  • Real-time collaboration patterns (conflict resolution, offline/merge)

  • Data infrastructure; vector/search stores, feature stores, eval pipelines

  • Observability end-to-end, SOC2‑minded practices

  • Experience with enterprise or regulated environments

Why Join

• A category-defining challenge: Help set the standard for ethical human–AI interactions and raise the bar for the next-generation UX practices.

• Ownership from day one: Own architecture and v1 delivery, end to end.

• Co-founder track: Equity & real influence on product, tech, org.

• Principled product: Explainability, reversibility, & user agency as defaults.

• Hard, interesting problems: Real-time interaction, model-backed features, and reliability under uncertainty.

• Copenhagen HQ: Build with Denmark’s design, ethics, and AI strengths; flexible hybrid, remote within CET±1.

Process

1. 30 minute intro call

   Overview of the product and vision, plus your background and what you are looking for.

2. Deep dive conversation

   Longer discussion on past work, technical decisions, ownership, and how you think and operate.

3. Project presentation

   You present a small project or past work relevant to what we are building, followed by discussion and decision.

Compensation

• Meaningful equity from day one.

• Salary staged post-funding; open to creative founder-friendly structures.