Founding Engineer jobs
Recent jobs tagged with this role.
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Quin
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago
Quin is an agentic platform to solve personal finance for people. The role is the first engineering hire and focuses on shipping trusted user workflows and building the backend and data layers that can support an agent in the future. You will own backend arch…
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Tech stack
Location
United States, Remote (US), Bay Area, Chicago, NYC
Work setup
full-time · REMOTE (US) with preference for Bay Area (tech), Chicago (consumer), or NYC (finance)
Compensation
Salary post-raise and meaningful equity. Part-time may be acceptable in the meantime.
Benefits
Meaningful equity, Salary post-raise
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Memora
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago
We're a 5-person startup building software for cemetery & public-records management for municipalities. Broad, hands-on Senior IC role with real product and infra ownership. Remote by design; quarterly offsites. Stack: NestJS/TypeScript, PostgreSQL + PostGIS…
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Tech stack
AWS WAF RDS LLM B2B QGIS React OIDC GH Actions NestJS Postgres PostGIS Expo Inngest Expo Router Amazon ECS AWS React Native Grafana Cloud Maplibre Typescript Promptfoo Grafana Cloudwatch Logto Amazon S3 Amazon Bedrock Terraform Multi-tenancy Amazon RDS SNS s3 Sentry GeoPackage ECS Fargate B2G PMTiles Tanstack Query MikroORM WAF CloudFront Bedrock RLSLocation
Remote (EU)
Work setup
full-time · Remote by design (EU) with 4h overlap with CET; quarterly offsites.
Compensation
Senior IC salary plus meaningful founding equity.
Benefits
Meaningful founding equity, Quarterly offsites
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Deep Core Technology
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago
We’re building a geologic modelling software based on reasoning to help mining and mineral exploration companies work faster. Currently in active fundraising. Role: Founding engineer on the team, joining co-founder (Neil, CEO) and CTO (Jeff, CTO) as first emp…
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Tech stack
Location
Remote (Must live in Canada)
Work setup
Full-time · Remote (MUST LIVE IN CANADA). Open to doing a yearly month abroad with co-founders.
Compensation
Salary: $105,000 - $125,000 CAD + equity
Benefits
Equity, Yearly month abroad (open to doing it)
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Mitte (mitte.ai)
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Mitte is an AI creative suite \u2014 the agentic OS for creative teams. Engineering roles in Berlin (on-site) include Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Go, React), Senior Frontend Engineer (React, TS, Redux), Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir, Go), and Founding Engin…
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Founding Engineer Senior Frontend Engineer Senior Full-stack Engineer Berlin AI Educator Senior Backend Engineer Founder's Associate Berlin Senior Backend Engineer Berlin Head of Growth Berlin Senior Full-Stack Engineer Growth Engineer Berlin Founding Engineer Berlin Senior Frontend Engineer Berlin Founder\u0027s Associate AI Educator RemoteTech stack
Location
Berlin, Berlin, Remote
Work setup
full-time · ONSITE, REMOTE; Engineering (Berlin, on-site); AI Educator (Remote)
Compensation
Full-Time
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trustedrouter.com
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
We are looking for founding engineer for https://trustedrouter.com/. End to end encrypted hosted open source clone of OpenRouter
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Pascal
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Pascal’s mission is to deliver AI-native systems to the offline economy, starting with the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector. We are reinventing how they operate, building the foundational layer for decisions across finance, sales, and operations teams. We…
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Location
New York City
Work setup
full-time · Onsite (New York City)
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z0.ai
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
We're helping non technical users adopt AI by making usage visible. Power users become role models and people can upskill to gain value rather than lose their jobs to AI. It's a complex problem because we need to balance trivial UX, with a slew of security an…
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Location
NYC
Work setup
full-time · On Site 5 days a week
Compensation
$140-$180k USD + equity
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Kiloforge
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Kiloforge is a company factory: a system that autonomously ideates, validates, builds, and distributes software products. Why: Before AI, countless niche communities and problems had no way of being served with first-class, high-quality software. As software…
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Location
San Francisco
Work setup
full-time · Onsite
Compensation
$185K – $250K
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Strobe Power
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
AI data centers are creating a massive new wave of electricity demand, and the grid is already stretched. Strobe is building an autonomous power company to help meet that demand: software that turns buildings, batteries, EVs, and generators into a distributed…
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Tech stack
Location
Brooklyn, SF
Work setup
full-time · ON-SITE (Brooklyn or SF).
Compensation
Well-funded early company; no specific salary or benefits mentioned.
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Tenera
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Tenera is building the product decision layer for agents and humans, backed by a top tier VC (announcing soon). The company is hiring its first engineer for an onsite role in San Francisco working five days a week (open to relocation for the right person). Th…
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Location
San Francisco, CA
Work setup
full-time · Onsite in San Francisco, CA five days a week; open to relocation for the right person.
Compensation
Meaningful founding equity. No salary or currency details provided.
Benefits
Founding equity, Onsite work in SF five days a week, Open to relocation for the right person
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DrSwarm
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
DrSwarm is building AI-driven workflow automation for healthcare clinics/health systems (scheduling, RCM/billing workflows, patient ops). This is a true 0→1 role: ship fast, talk to customers, own systems end-to-end. You will build product end-to-end (Next.js…
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Tech stack
Location
REMOTE (US or LATAM)
Work setup
full-time, contract to full-time · REMOTE (US or LATAM; must overlap with US Pacific hours). Full-time or Contract to Full-time.
Compensation
Market compensation with a mix of base + bonus + meaningful equity. Employment options: Full-time or Contract to Full-time.
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Hotwash
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Hotwash is an after-action review platform for fire departments. After a serious call, crews record what happened, the platform transcribes and structures it, and the hard-won lessons become searchable institutional memory instead of retiring when veterans wh…
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Tech stack
Location
United States
Work setup
full-time · REMOTE (US)
Compensation
Founding equity (scaled to scope). Lean cash pre-seed; no other salary details provided.
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BrightCore
Founding Engineer
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
BrightCore is closing a pre-seed and hiring its first engineer to work on a gym/fitness SaaS. Stack includes NestJS, Prisma, Postgres, Next.js, Anthropic API, and Meta WhatsApp Cloud API. Responsibilities include building the NestJS/Postgres backend (~70%) an…
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Location
Dublin, Ireland
Work setup
full-time · Hybrid (2 days/week)
Compensation
€58–65k + 1.0–1.5% equity
Benefits
Equity: 1.0–1.5%, Salary: €58–65k
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Stealth Startup
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month ago
Founding Engineering role with early IC focus (first 3–6 months) to build a multi-modal AI agent product (voice + SMS + email). Responsibilities include building real-time voice systems (streaming audio, low latency, turn-taking), SMS and email automation wit…
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Tech stack
Location
NYC (in-person 5x/week)
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gentube
founding engineer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Founding team role. Drive end-to-end create latency to near-zero, cut cost per generation, keep pipelines stable under load, and ship continuously across infrastructure + models. Core loop: create → remix → repeat. Wants a strong full-stack engineer with a bi…
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Location
Toronto, Canada
Compensation
Compensation: $100K-160K plus meaningful equity.
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BetterDB
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
BetterDB is building the tooling ecosystem for Valkey, a high-performance Redis fork backed by AWS, Google, and Oracle. They are starting with observability including historical persistence, pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and Prometheus export to help d…
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BrightCore
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
BrightCore is hiring its first engineer (Founding Engineer) to own key backend work for a gym/fitness SaaS. The role is 70% NestJS/Postgres backend and 30% Coral, an AI agent for member retention using WhatsApp. The ideal candidate can ship solo, has 3–5 year…
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Tech stack
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Compensation
€58–65k salary plus 1.0–1.5% equity
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Recover Systems
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Recover Systems is building infrastructure for restoration work, streamlining remediation contractor operations by handling red tape and headaches. The platform is built from insurance requirements, financial ledgers, and spatial intelligence, collapsing many…
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Location
Onsite in Portland, Maine
Compensation
130-160k + meaningful equity
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Waypoint Learning
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Students with disabilities are not receiving the support they deserve, and Waypoint is changing that by building AI tools that special education teachers use to better support students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Hiring a founding engineer …
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Tech stack
Location
NYC, Remote (US)
Compensation
One-week challenge; best submission gets $500; top 5 get an immediate final round interview. Deadline: Monday, May 11 @ 12pm ET.
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Octozi
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Octozi is a revenue-generating seed-stage company building AI agents for clinical development workflows. Bringing a drug to market can take a decade and cost up to $2B, keeping treatments expensive and delaying life-saving therapies for the patients who need …
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MintMCP
Founding GTM
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
MintMCP helps enterprises safely roll out agents to the entire organization with governance around MCP tools and agents (e.g., Claude Code / Codex / Cowork). They are building an MCP gateway with abstractions for 1) preventing agents from doing unintentionall…
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Location
SF Bay Area
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Kiloforge
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Kiloforge is a company factory: a system that autonomously ideates, validates, builds, and distributes software products. Before AI, many niche communities and problems had no way to be served with first-class, high-quality software; as software trends toward…
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Location
San Francisco
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Eve
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Building an executive voice engine (Eve), a multi-agent AI system that learns how a leader thinks and produces content indistinguishable from what they'd write. Role includes full AI stack and product: agent orchestration, evals, RAG, prompt chaining, model t…
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Tech stack
Location
San Francisco, CA
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Strix
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Strix is building the largest open-source AI pentesting framework. The role is for a founding engineer to help take a 0→1 journey and own the architecture of an already-at-scale product. You will work across infrastructure, product, and research tooling, usin…
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Deep Core Technology
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Founding Engineer role joining co-founders (Neil, CEO and Jeff, CTO) as the first employee. Own systems and architecture with end-to-end ownership across the stack: database, geostatistical backend services, and 3D client-side rendering. Work rooted in agenti…
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Tech stack
Location
Squamish, BC, Canada
Compensation
Salary: $105,000 - $125,000 CAD plus 1% equity. Open to yearly month abroad.