Founding Engineer, Series A
$200k - $280kBluebird
Hey! Thanks for checking this out. This is one of the coolest engineering roles we've worked on.
Ready to make your application Please do read through the description at least once before clicking on Apply.
2 quick notes:
- This is New York based, 3 days a week in a brand new office on Park Avenue. Relocation support and visa sponsorship are both available.
- You have to actually love AI. Not "I use Copilot at work." More like you ran the new open-weights release locally the weekend it dropped, just to see what it could do.
The company is…
The team behind one of the most widely used open-source computer vision model families in the world. Millions of developers use their tools, and their SaaS platform serves everyone from solo builders to enterprises running fully air-gapped, on-prem deployments with strict compliance needs. Small team, huge footprint, extremely high bar.
What's in it for you?
They're hiring three founding engineers to build a second product team from scratch in the new New York office. You'd report straight to the VP of Product. This team is built differently from the first one on purpose: more ownership, more say over architecture, more room for your own ideas. You won't be picking up tickets. You'll decide what gets built and how.
They offer the following…
- USD $200k–$280k base.
- Founding-level options, with really good flexibility
- If needed: Relocation support to New York, plus visa sponsorship.
- A direct line to the founder and product leadership. No layers.
- Popular, non-exotic stack chosen so LLMs can help you move fast.
What will you do?
- Tech lead on platform features. The architecture calls are yours.
- Own big product components end to end: build, deploy, billing, compliance.
- Build cloud infra and microservices that handle real users and real enterprise requirements.
- Test new AI models and tools, and ship the ones worth shipping.
- Spot scalability, reliability and regulatory problems early, before anyone has to ask.
You need these skills…
- Tech-lead experience setting technical direction for a cross-functional team. You don't need a manager title.
- You've shipped a significant product component to production end to end at a small or mid-sized company, from backend and databases through compliance.
- You've worked somewhere with structured code reviews and demanding clients, and you take hard feedback without getting defensive.
- Strong software engineering with GCP or AWS. Stack: GCP, AWS, Vercel, Redis, MongoDB, Lambda, Cloud Run, S3, microservices.
- Nice to have: a GPU rig at home, on-prem or air-gapped deployments, computer vision, EM experience, tech-lead work on AI products.
Why NOW, why here?
- The New York office just opened and this team doesn't exist yet. The three people hired now set how it builds, ships and works. xhyhwjd
Get in as one of the three founding engineers. Everyone who joins after builds on what you set up
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