2,914 Founding Engineer jobs
Founding engineer roles building the first product at early-stage startups.

Systems Engineer II
Systems Engineer II defines and maintains technical requirements for autonomous vehicle systems, collaborates on design reviews, and works with test teams to verify safety and performance in a fast-paced startup environment.

Summer 2027 Internship- Software Engineering
Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2027) at Pacific Fusion, a fusion energy startup, building web-based UIs and backend services that let engineers and operators run the fusion demonstration facility — real-time monitoring, configuration/data management, and integration with controls systems. Stack involves TypeScript/JavaScript, Go or Python, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
Staff Software Engineer (AI)
Staff AI engineer at Onos Health building LLM/NLU systems that process clinical notes and classify patients' level of care, plus the data pipelines and backend integration behind them. Hybrid role in San Francisco (2-3 days/week in office) using Python/Django, AWS, Docker, and PostgreSQL.
Hyey - Software Engineer Intern (Los Angeles, CA)
Part-time remote software engineering internship (15-20 hrs/week, 8-10 weeks) at Hyey, a Los Angeles startup building a caregiver coordination app. The intern fixes bugs, ships small features, and improves UX/frontend flows using JavaScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, and Firebase.
SAP ABAP Developer
Designs, develops, and maintains ABAP-based integrations (RFCs, BAPIs, IDocs, PI/PO, OData, BTP) between SAP ECC/S4HANA systems and CashFlo's AI-powered finance automation platform, covering payments, GST/compliance, and vendor financing workflows. Collaborates with client IT and internal product teams on end-to-end integration delivery.
Software Engineer II
Remote Software Engineer II at Tilt (hiring via HearstLab) to own well-scoped full-stack features from design through production, reduce bugs and tech debt, keep CI pipelines green, and join an on-call rotation. Core stack is Python/Django on the backend and React on the frontend; B2B SaaS, startup environment.
Senior Software Engineer – Platform Team
Senior Software Engineer on Maven AGI's Platform team, defining architecture and building scalable backend services that power autonomous AI customer-support agents. Day-to-day spans TypeScript/Node and Java (Spring Boot) services, telephony integrations (SIP/Twilio), and mentoring engineers in a hybrid Boston/SF startup.
Staff Software Engineer – Platform Team
Staff Software Engineer on Maven AGI's Platform team: a senior hands-on role architecting, building, and scaling the backend services that power Maven's agentic AI customer-support platform, while setting technical direction and mentoring engineers. Core stack is TypeScript/Node and Java (Spring Boot), with telephony (SIP/Twilio) integration work.
Founding Engineer
Founding engineer at Hedge, an AI-native specialty commercial insurance brokerage (YC-backed), owning the platform end to end — AI agents, evals, data pipelines, integrations, and reliability — onsite in San Francisco. Core stack is Python/FastAPI, TypeScript/React, and Postgres.
Web Developer | Full Time (m/w/d)
Own and drive CONROO's central web app — used daily by terminal operators, truckers, and internal ops teams — end-to-end from scoping to production within a cross-functional team. Core stack is Vue.js 3, Vuetify, and TypeScript, with REST API integrations and Git/CI/CD/Docker tooling.
Data Integration Engineer
Clarium is hiring a Data Integration Engineer to own customer data integrations end to end: running technical discovery with hospital IT teams, building and operating production Python/SQL data pipelines that pull data from hospital ERP, supply chain, and EHR systems into its Astra OS platform, and troubleshooting live integration issues.
Software Engineer (Product)
Engineer at Cartesian builds end-to-end features for an indoor positioning/inventory-visibility platform used by retail stores — spanning mobile (Android/Kotlin), a Python/FastAPI backend, Next.js frontend, and Azure/Kubernetes infrastructure, with close in-person collaboration with customers and research teams.
Software Engineer (Mobile & Sensing)
Mobile engineer at an MIT-spun-out startup building indoor positioning and inventory-visibility software for retail. Day to day you build Android (Kotlin) SDKs and end-user apps that stream high-rate sensor data from RFID scanners, barcode readers and other hardware to help store staff locate items. In-person in Cambridge, MA.
Software Engineer (Security)
Cartesian, an MIT-spun-out startup building indoor positioning and inventory visibility for retail, is hiring a security-minded software engineer to build Python web services, harden access control, guide SOC 2 certification, and manage Azure/Kubernetes infra via Terraform. On-site 5 days/week in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA.

Member of Technical Staff - Shared Services
Builds and operates Reflection AI's core shared-services platform — developer infrastructure, SRE, and data/compute workflow tooling — that research and production teams rely on. Day-to-day involves designing distributed APIs and services with Go, Rust, C++, gRPC, and Kubernetes, with heavy focus on reliability (SLI/SLOs), scalability, and on-call readiness.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Senior full-stack engineer (backend-focused) as the first hire in a new Christchurch office for an AI-powered professional-services platform start-up. Day to day: build backend features, services and third-party integrations (Outlook, Xero, practice systems), owning work from design through production, using Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS and React.
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Raydar is recruiting a Software Engineer for a client's small New York engineering team to build backend data pipelines and cloud infrastructure from scratch, including per-customer cloud environments provisioned with tools like Terraform and AWS, using AI/LLM tooling heavily. On-site in New York 5 days a week; $165k–$290k plus equity.

Staff Software Engineer
Staff/Senior Software Engineer building Meadow Pay, a payments platform for higher education. Day to day: end-to-end ownership of backend services and APIs in TypeScript/Node.js, React frontend work, and system reliability, with AI tooling as a core part of the workflow. Remote within the US.


Senior Software Engineer, Plant Control
Helion, a fusion power company, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (onsite, Everett, WA) to design, build, and scale the plant-control software for its fusion generators — spanning real-time control, diagnostics, data acquisition, automation, and operator GUIs. Core stack is C++/Rust systems programming plus Python, on Linux, integrated with real hardware.
