Founding Engineer
$170k - $225kAmadeus Search
Role: Founding Engineer (Full-Stack/AI)
Location: New York, NY | Full-time | On-site
Compensation: $170k - $225k + Equity (0.75% - 1.25%)
About the Role
This is your chance to be a founding engineer at a stealth AI startup redefining video creation and collaboration. We're looking for ambitious engineers with a founder mindset who want to own products, design AI workflows, and build new tools that don't exist yet. You'll work in a high-impact, small, and talent-dense team iterating rapidly with users, pushing the boundaries of AI pipelines, real-time collaboration, and video/graphics rendering. What You Will Do
Location: New York, NY | Full-time | On-site
Compensation: $170k - $225k + Equity (0.75% - 1.25%)
About the Role
This is your chance to be a founding engineer at a stealth AI startup redefining video creation and collaboration. We're looking for ambitious engineers with a founder mindset who want to own products, design AI workflows, and build new tools that don't exist yet. You'll work in a high-impact, small, and talent-dense team iterating rapidly with users, pushing the boundaries of AI pipelines, real-time collaboration, and video/graphics rendering. What You Will Do
- Build & Ship Fast - Design, develop, and deploy full-stack features across web and AI-powered pipelines.
- AI-Enhanced Video - Implement real-time Figma-style collaboration and reasoning-heavy video/graphics systems.
- Prototype New AI Systems - Explore frontier diffusion models, reasoning models, and data-driven evaluation pipelines.
- Server & Graphics Optimization - Extend and optimize backend video/graphics rendering.
- Shaders & Visual Effects - Write WebGL shaders for advanced graphics and special effects.
- End-to-End Ownership - Take responsibility across front-end, back-end, and AI systems to deliver high-quality production-ready solutions.
- 3+ years of full-stack engineering experience, ideally in early-stage startups.
- Expertise in React and modern web frameworks.
- Strong interest in AI, machine learning, and novel media technologies.
- Ability to ship production-ready code rapidly while maintaining quality.
- Creative problem-solving skills and comfort experimenting with new technologies.
- Passion for building products from 0→1 in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Salary - $170k - $225k
- Equity - 0.75% - 1.25%
- Visa sponsorship - not available
- Work Policy - on-site, NYC (Soho), 6 days/week
- Benefits - Comprehensive healthcare, meals provided, top-tier equipment
- Build at the forefront of AI-powered video creation.
- Work on high-impact, reasoning-heavy AI pipelines shaping the future of media.
- Join a small, expert team where ownership, speed, and innovation are rewarded.
- Opportunity to design, prototype, and ship tools that fundamentally change how videos are created and consumed.
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