Founding Engineer
$180k - $250kFull-time
Open Systems Technologies
An AI startup in New York City is looking for a Founding Engineer to join their team.
Compensation: $180K–$250K + Equity
Location: New York, NY; 5 days onsite per week
US Citizen/GC Holders Only; No Visa Sponsorship
Within this role, you'll own a full product area from day one, from the first idea through production, with no PM between you and the customer. You'll get on customer calls, make product decisions yourself, and ship fast. As the company grows, you can move into leadership or stay deep on the IC track.
Responsibilities:
- Build and ship full stack features in TypeScript (Node.js, React/Next.js)
- Build agent products directly on LLM APIs and agent SDKs
- Work on voice and SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, and evals and guardrails
- Talk to customers and turn what they need into product decisions without waiting for a roadmap
Qualifications:
Required
- Shipped a 0 to 1 product at a high-growth startup, as a founder, or on a new product team at a big tech company
- Strong TypeScript (Node.js, React/Next.js)
- Comfortable making product calls on your own and talking to customers
- 3 to 10 years of full stack engineering experience
- Deep experience in at least one of these: production voice or SMS agents (Retell, Vapi, Ultravox, 11x-style), long-running agent state and memory, B2B2C or marketplace products, or agent evals and guardrails
- Has built real products directly on LLM APIs or agent SDKs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel AI SDK, Mastra or similar), not tutorials or thin wrappers
Preferred
- Former YC founder or a founder whose company got real traction (revenue, funding or an acquisition); If it failed, you can explain why
- Top CS program, which matters most for candidates with 3 to 4 years of experience
- Python for real-time voice pipelines (LiveKit, Deepgram, STT/TTS) or eval tooling (Braintrust, LLM-as-judge)
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