Founding Engineer
€80k - €140k per yearClera
ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage AI infrastructure startup as its first engineer. You will work directly with the founder to evolve a functioning product into scalable infrastructure for AI-powered service businesses, with broad ownership across the product and its technical direction. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Develop the architecture and infrastructure needed to scale the product to a large user base. - Build and operate the agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, verification, and supporting systems. - Take projects end to end across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI agents. - Set technical standards and guide how the engineering team builds as it grows. - Ship improvements regularly to users operating real businesses. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 2 years of experience shipping production software, or an equivalent record as a founder, solo builder, or exceptional early-career engineer. - Experience building and running LLM or AI agent systems in production, with real users relying on them.
- Full-stack range, including the ability to work across backend, infrastructure, and user interfaces. - Experience turning prototypes into dependable systems through sound architecture, data models, runtime design, and orchestration. - Evidence of owning technical decisions and delivering quickly in an early-stage or independent environment. - Strong generalist engineering skills and practical experience with agent workflows, memory, evaluations, or verification are valuable. - Based in Europe and willing to relocate to San Francisco within the first year. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary is €80,000 to €140,000 annually. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for a move to San Francisco. LOCATION Remote within Europe, with relocation to San Francisco expected within the first year.
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Karh
Cambridge, MA2 days ago $150k - $250k
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$150k - $250k
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GreenBridge
United States18 hours ago - Serval is hiring its founding Solutions Engineer to own the pre‑sales technical motion for strategic customers. You’ll partner with GTM leaders and AEs to shape demos, evaluations, and the architecture that wins the technical decision. You’ll demonstrate credible technical...Remote work
$142k - $188k
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June Point Lending
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Aventura, FL1 day ago$200k - $275k
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Devconnectplatform
Eastern, KY18 hours ago - ...is open source, because the community should be able to outlive the company that started it. About the Role This is a founding engineering role, and a senior one. You’ll own large parts of the Rust systems that make all of the above run, working directly with our...Remote work
Blacksky Algorithms
Eastern, KY4 days ago $500 per month
...communities a bastion of genuine human relationship and the OS for every business’s sales & marketing team. And we are hiring our first Founding Engineer to help us build that future! As an early engineer, you will: Work directly with the CTO Define architecture, not just...Price workFull timeRemote workTightknit
Eastern, KY2 days ago- ...Benbase is on a mission to scale the trusted benefits advisor. As a Founding Engineer, you'll architect and build our AI agent platform. You'll work across the stack-from thinking how our agents interact human-in-loop to optimizing back-end infrastructure and model...Remote work
Benbase, Inc.
United States2 days ago $150k - $300k
...Founding Engineer Opportunity Our client is a pre-seed fintech company building an agentic neobank: an autonomous personal CFO designed to optimize cash, debt, budgeting, expenses, investing, and taxes. Founded in 2025 by a former senior financial-services leader at...Full timeContract workH1bRemote workVisa sponsorshipPre-seed fintech
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GMS Advisors
New York, NY18 hours ago $150k - $200k
...instead of forcing every fleet into a standard software. Our founding team is ex-Citadel Securities and ex-Palantir. We are backed by... ...The role and what we require We're looking for a founding engineer who can work directly with modern fleets to build specialized...For contractorsRemote workAndreessen Horowitz
San Francisco, CA18 hours ago$150k - $200k
...artificial intelligence-has never meaningfully helped before. Founded by two French co-founders who have been best friends since age three, this company combines deep expertise in mechanical engineering, AI, and robotics with a long-term vision for industrial...Work experience placementRemote workFlexible hoursAI Talent Now
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Somewhere
United States4 days ago $150k - $250k
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New York, NY18 hours ago$175k - $250k
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NEXTGEN ANGELS, LLC
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HuCapital
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Combine Global Recruitment
United States11 hours ago
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