2,916 Founding Engineer jobs
Founding engineer roles building the first product at early-stage startups.
Senior Software Engineer, Security
Senior Software Engineer on Super.com's Security team, shaping AppSec and DevSecOps practices: threat modeling, offensive security testing, building in-house AI-powered security tooling, and mentoring engineers. Stack includes Python/FastAPI, TypeScript/React, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
Software Engineer
Software engineer at a biotech company working across backend, frontend, and firmware projects — building machine control software, industrial 3D design tools, and web apps that orchestrate biotech processes. Uses TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, and C/C++, with Git-based collaborative workflows.
Quantum Software Engineer - Nuclear
Designs, writes, and tests quantum algorithms (QPE, VQE, Hamiltonian simulation) applied to nuclear physics problems, collaborating with experimental physicists and external groups. Core stack is Python with quantum frameworks like Qiskit/Cirq, plus R&D, proposal writing, and publishing research.
BMC System Engineer
At Skapion, a stealth defense-tech startup, you will design the battle management command-and-control system: authoring requirements and interfaces, integrating sensors, interceptors, and C2 nodes, and validating through lab tests and live field trials.
Software Engineer
Software Engineer at a Series-D fintech startup (financial wellness for underserved customers), based in Midtown Manhattan with 3 days onsite per week. Day to day: building scalable Java/Spring microservices and core applications, using relational/non-relational DBs, containerization/deployment tools, and AI tools like Claude/Cursor/Gemini, including agentic AI to automate the dev pipeline.
Software Engineer
Remolity is hiring a fully remote back-end Software Engineer to build and scale its remote-job search platform, working on APIs, job discovery, search/filtering, and user-preference features. Requires proficiency in at least one modern language (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java) plus API and relational/NoSQL database experience; cloud and CI/CD skills are a plus.
System Engineer, Infotainment Systems
System engineer and feature/function owner for vehicle infotainment and displays at EV maker Scout Motors, owning features like navigation, off-road mapping, CarPlay, and Android Auto end-to-end from requirements through validation and launch. The work spans systems engineering, embedded software/hardware integration, and MBSE tooling (CAN, Automotive Ethernet, CANoe, Codebeamer) in a cross-functi

Senior Software Engineer - Product Platform
Senior Software Engineer on Kikoff's Product Platform team builds and owns foundational services—identity/KYC infrastructure, credit furnishing systems, and shared platform capabilities—that every product team depends on. Ruby on Rails is a plus; strong production-systems fundamentals required.
Staff Software Engineer, Robotics
Staff robotics software engineer at Divergent (Torrance, CA, hybrid) who designs, builds, and optimizes the software controlling industrial robots, additive-manufacturing equipment, and automated production lines. Day-to-day is hands-on C++/C#/Python development, machine-control architecture, hardware/sensor integration, and cross-team debugging in a factory environment.
Junior/Middle .NET Developer (C#)
Builds backend services and REST APIs in C#/.NET, works with MongoDB, ClickHouse, and RabbitMQ, and contributes to an AI product analyzing workflows.
Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research
Applied research engineer at Chakra Labs building post-training workflows, agent environments, reward/eval systems, and training infrastructure for frontier AI labs. Day to day: designing tasks and reward signals, curating high-fidelity training trajectories, and running distributed PyTorch training on GPU clusters.
Senior C++ Software Engineer – Real-Time Systems (m/w/d)
Senior C++ engineer at enabl (Karlsruhe) building the real-time connectivity stack that lets forklifts be safely remote-controlled across Europe. Day to day: Modern C++/Python on Linux for low-latency video and control data links, WLAN analysis at customer sites, and automated network test infrastructure/CI.
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer at Scope AI, an early-stage startup building an AI-native data-collection platform for field inspectors. You'll work end to end—talking to users, designing and shipping AI systems that turn voice notes, photos and videos into finished reports—on-site five days a week in London; Expo/React Native skills a plus.
Engineering Manager, Arc Vehicle Software
Leads Inversion's Arc software team, managing flight software, ground software, and autonomy development for a hypersonic reentry spacecraft — owning the full release cycle, SIL/HIL testing, and GNC integration. Core stack: embedded C/C++/Rust on Linux in a high-reliability, clearance-required environment.
Senior Software Engineer (Python & Ruby on Rails)
Foundational senior engineer at a health benefits platform who architects a multi-tenant Rails/Python SaaS on AWS (RDS, S3, Redshift, Glue, OpenSearch), builds RAG pipelines on HIPAA-eligible LLMs, and mentors offshore engineers — roughly 80% hands-on building, 20% technical leadership, reporting to the Lead Engineer.