Founding Engineer
$150k - $250kAgentMail
AgentMail is building the identity and communication infrastructure for AI agents, starting with email. We are looking for a Founding Engineer with backend and infra focus to architect systems for agents as the end users. Responsibilities: Design APIs that are intuitive for both humans and LLMs Architect high-throughput, low-latency systems Write and review clean, idiomatic code Maintain comprehensive documentation Qualifications: Has prior work experience (internships count) as an engineer at a tech company Has shipped software used in production by real users (work or personal projects) Compensation: $150k - $250k base salary 0.5% - 2.0% equity Breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Doordash) Medical, dental, and vision insurance Wellness stipend #J-18808-Ljbffr
- ...Description Join Hire Hangar and work with fast-growing global companies while building a long-term career. Job Title| Founding Systems Engineer (Performance) Location | On-Site — San Francisco, CA Time Zone | PST Role Overview: We are seeking a Founding...Suggested
- ...Description Join Hire Hangar and work with fast-growing global companies while building a long-term career. Job Title: Founding Production Systems Engineer Location | On-Site — San Francisco, CA Time Zone | PST Role Overview: We are seeking a Founding...Suggested
$150k - $200k
...About the Company Our client is a seed-stage aviation-AI company (founded 2024, roughly five people today) building an in-cockpit... ...cockpit product. You'll work directly with the CTO and lead software engineer, be deeply hands-on, and make consequential architecture and...SuggestedFull time- ...Visa sponsorship: None available. About the Role: This is a founding hardware role, and the person who fills it owns the physical... ...hire joins the technical side alongside the CTO and lead software engineer as one of the first ten employees. The role requires someone...SuggestedFull timeVisa sponsorship
- ...from across IT and security. Several design partners today and a founding team of three. Full-Time, In-person, San Francisco, CA.... ...About the Role: This is a backend- and systems-heavy founding engineering role where "full-stack" means owning the product and system end...SuggestedFull timeH1bVisa sponsorship
$500 per month
...DESCRIPTIONThis company handles millions of calls per month and needs an engineer who has worked at that scale before and knows how to build... ...sub-100 milliseconds.You will work on-site directly with the founding team, contributing across architecture, infrastructure, and...H1b- Truss is a regulated fintech company seeking the founding head of risk to design and lead the risk program. The role requires building production risk systems, rules engines, and decisioning platforms to catch fraud, abuse, and loss in production. You will own end-to-end...
$120k - $180k
...Founding Engineer – Staff/Senior Location: San Francisco, CA Type: Full-time, In-person Flowtel is building the next-generation operating system for hospitality, powered by modern AI agents that can handle everything from booking to room service. We just launched, secured...Full time- ...be reconfigured with the click of a button to support the most demanding logistics operations. Learn more at Cavalla.ai. As a Founding Engineer at Cavalla, you will design, build, and deploy core systems that power our adaptive warehouse automation and autonomous forklifts...Full time
- ...connections will form the foundation of the agentic internet – and Caylex will be the infrastructure powering it. The Role As a Founding Engineer, you’ll play a central role in shaping both our product and engineering culture. You will: Work full-stack across...Full timeWork at office
- ...Origamics AI · Founding team · Full-time We're hiring the first engineers to join the founders. Not employee #20. Not "early." Founding. What we do The technology used to design boards and electronics is some of the most complex in existence, and it hasn't changed much...Full timeImmediate start
- ...Founding Engineer - Real-Time AI Systems (Healthcare) Hybrid- options in Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay area AI in healthcare mostly lives in the cloud. It helps with notes and paperwork, but it isn't present when care decisions are being made. We're changing that. We...
- ...Founding Engineer (Full Stack) Location: San Francisco Bay Area Type: Full-Time Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity (founding tier) About the role We’re hiring a founding full stack engineer to help architect and build the platform from day one. This is...Full time
$200k - $400k
...Founding Engineer Location - San Francisco, CA (On-site) - *On-site role in San Francisco, CA.* Compensation - $200,000 -- $400,000 Base + Significant Early-Stage Equity (1%+ for Founding Engineers) Visa - Open to Visa Transfers and Visa Sponsorships (OPT, H1B Transfers...InternshipH1bVisa sponsorship- ...About Loop Loop AI is a San Francisco–based tech company founded in 2022. We provide a Delivery Intelligence Platform for data-driven... ...first restaurants. About The Role We are looking for a Founding Engineer with 4+ years of backend engineering experience to join our fast...Temporary work
$350k
...conversations consistent and personalized across all channels. Reverse engineering legacy healthcare systems that don’t have public APIs to... ...who desperately need them. We’re looking for exceptional founding engineers to help us realize this ambition. If you’re an engineer...Contract workNight shift$120k - $170k
...Our client, an AI startup in the eCommerce industry, are hiring a Founding Engineer to join their growing team in San Francisco. The successful candidate will take full ownership of the product, from system architecture and infrastructure to customer deployments and rapid...$100k - $200k
...innovation. Learn more at voicecursor.ai. Role Description This is a full-time, on-site role based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a Founding Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical foundation of Voice Cursor. Your day-to-day responsibilities will...Full time10 hours per weekFlexible hours- ...GTM Engineer Nango lets developers build product integrations with AI. It gives agents and applications access to the APIs their users... ...in growth engineering, GTM engineering, technical RevOps, or founded a product. Bonus: you have experience with developer tools,...
- ...As a founding engineer and first full-time hire, you’ll be a cornerstone in building out the EffiGov platform and team. You’ll ship features, design scalable architectures, implement cutting edge tools and research, all in service of delivering for our early customers...Full timeTemporary workLocal area
- ...About The Opportunity I’m partnering with an early-stage startup that is looking for a Founding Engineer to help build and scale their platform from the ground up. This is a true 0-to-1 opportunity where you’ll have significant ownership over the product, architecture,...Full time
- ...previously built and exited companies and held senior product and engineering roles at Meta, Airbnb, and Canva. The throughline across... ...infrastructure that bigger players take for granted. The role As Founding Engineer, you’ll build the technical foundation of that...Night shiftWeekend work
- ...tl;dr: This is a 1 of 1 role. We're looking for a founding engineer to work alongside a Thiel Fellow founder as employee #1 - with 5X more equity than most "founding engineers". About Empathic “…but I tell you all today, I would rather die a man than live for all eternity...InternshipWork at office
$200k - $250k
...Moritz Global AI-native law firm handling legal work with same-day turnaround Founding Engineer Salary: $200K - $250K, Equity: 0.30% - 1.00%, Location: San Francisco, CA, US Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Full stack Experience 3+ years Visa US citizen/visa only Skills...Full time- ...high-growth product company building AI-powered software from the ground up alongside a small, high-caliber founding team. They're looking for a Founding Engineer to join as one of the earliest technical hires and help build the product end-to-end. This is a full-stack...Part time3 days per week
$175k - $225k
...About the Role Join a fast-moving, early-stage consumer AI startup as a Founding Engineer — a rare, high-impact position working directly alongside the founder. This is a true 1-of-1 opportunity to shape both the product and engineering culture from the ground up. The...Remote workVisa sponsorship- ...or Vercel and thought "why doesn't every B2B tool feel like this?" — that's the standard you'd be hired to hold. This is a founding engineering hire. You'd work directly with the founders, ship to production every week, and have outsized influence on what the product...Full timeLive inWork at officeImmediate startRelocation
- ...technical genius. He trained the first-ever image editing AI in the world. Before Y/n, I was the founding designer at Substack. We're looking for a founding full-stack engineer to own most of the app surface and our personalized recommendations infrastructure. This is a...Relocation
$250k
...Founding Engineer (San Francisco Startups | up to $250k+ + equity) Salary: Total compensation up to $250,000+ plus meaningful equity Dex is an intelligent recruiter that helps you run your job search. Tell Dex about your experience, what you want to build or solve, and...$170k - $250k
...Founding Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA (Mission District) Work Arrangement: Full-Time | On-site (5 days/week) Compensation: $170,000–$250,000 Base Salary + Equity (0.25–1.5%) Visa Sponsorship: Available for exceptional candidates About the Company We're building...Full timeImmediate startVisa sponsorship
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