2,918 Founding Engineer jobs
Founding engineer roles building the first product at early-stage startups.
Infrastructure Software Engineer
Builds and scales the cloud infrastructure behind Mercor's AI data platform, covering cloud architecture, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, observability, and disaster recovery. Core stack includes AWS, Terraform, Docker, and Python/Go; roles span Developer Productivity, Database, and Platform Engineering. In-person five days a week in SF, NYC, or London.
Staff IT Engineer
A Staff IT Engineer at Abridge (healthcare AI) acts as a technical leader for corporate IT, building large-scale workflow automations, API integrations, IAM automation, and IT data platforms in a HIPAA/SOC 2-compliant environment. Core stack includes GCP/AWS/Azure, Terraform, Python, SQL, and automation platforms like n8n, Ansible, and Workato.
Senior Software Engineer - Product
Senior full-stack product engineer (backend emphasis) at Assort Health, which builds AI voice agents that handle patient calls and scheduling for healthcare providers. Day to day you design and ship scalable features across UIs, APIs, data models, background jobs, and integrations using TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, FastAPI, and Postgres.
Founding Engineer
Founding engineer at a seed-stage B2B startup building the system of record for headcount planning. You'll own large parts of the product end to end, work directly with founders and enterprise customers, and ship fast on a stack of TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, and GCP — on-site in Palo Alto.
Senior/Staff Software Engineer
Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Zanskar, a geothermal exploration company, designs and leads a reliable distributed compute system powering its multi-physics well-targeting engine, working closely with geoscientists. Core stack: Python, SQL, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, serverless), Docker, Terraform/Pulumi, and CI/CD.
Member of Technical Staff, Cloud Software Engineer
Cloud Software Engineer at Edison Scientific builds and operates the 'bring your own cloud' deployment product so the company's AI scientist platform can run inside enterprise clients' AWS/GCP environments. Day to day: infrastructure tooling, IaC automation (Terraform/Pulumi/Crossplane, GitOps), security hardening, and hands-on client deployment support. On-site in San Francisco.
Software Engineer, Product (Co-op)
An 8-month co-op software engineer at Bree, a Canadian consumer fintech, builds customer-facing full-stack features end to end — from problem scoping through testing and release — across TypeScript/Node.js backend services and React Native mobile apps, with mentorship from senior engineers.
Member of Technical Staff - ML Operations
Builds and operates the ML infrastructure behind Veeda AI's Physical AI world models: experiment tracking tools, inference fleet orchestration, model evaluation in CI, large-scale data pipelines, and visualization platforms. Day-to-day is platform/backend engineering with Python, Go/Rust/Java, CI/CD, and distributed systems for training and serving.
Junior Python Developer
Junior Python developer building customizations, integrations, and new features on Odoo ERP projects for SME clients — developing modules (models, XML views, QWeb reports), modeling PostgreSQL databases, building REST/RPC APIs, and writing tests. Intensive Odoo training and mentoring provided; core stack is Python, Odoo, PostgreSQL, Git.
Corporate IT Engineer
Own Corporate IT end to end at a Series B Causal AI startup: run the employee IT lifecycle (onboarding, devices, access), administer the identity/SaaS stack (SSO, MDM, directory), provide first-line internal support, and progressively automate provisioning and fixes using scripting.
Software Engineer
Software engineer at Blissway, a Denver startup building toll-collection and highway-safety tech spanning edge hardware, AI/ML, and cloud SaaS. You'll ship production code across the full stack—from roadside IoT devices to data-processing servers—mostly in Python and TypeScript, with real ownership from week one.
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Commure is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on its Infrastructure team in Mountain View to design, build, and operate the cloud foundation and internal developer platform behind its healthcare AI platform. Day-to-day work spans GCP/AWS/Azure with Terraform, Kubernetes fleet management, Argo CD GitOps, service mesh, and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
Senior Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
Senior Platform Engineer on Sprig's Platform team, owning the build-and-test loop for a large TypeScript, React, and Go monorepo: modernizing the Bazel JS build, cutting CI time/cost, hardening test automation, and replacing shared environments with ephemeral per-branch stacks that both engineers and AI agents can use safely.
Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration
Builds production autonomy software for Contoro's autonomous truck-unloading warehouse robots, connecting high-level planning to reliable physical execution across robot control, end effectors, sensors, and conveyors. Core stack is modern C++, Python, and ROS/ROS 2 on Linux, with work on trajectory execution, behavior trees, and cycle-time profiling.
Member of Technical Staff (MTS) Intern (m/f/d)
Full-time 4–6 month engineering internship in Berlin at Limetax, an AI-native accounting and tax group for German SMEs. The intern takes end-to-end ownership of a scoped production problem, building with LLMs/applied AI, APIs, data pipelines, and internal tools alongside experienced engineers.
Member of Technical Staff, Inference
Inference runtime engineer working at the core of vLLM, optimizing LLM and diffusion model serving across diverse hardware and model architectures (MoE, multimodal, agentic). Day-to-day is systems/ML engineering in Python and PyTorch to make AI inference cheaper and faster.
Software Engineer
Software engineer at a biotech startup in Los Angeles building AI model inference infrastructure, distributed lab instrument control systems, and user-facing software. Day-to-day spans Flutter, Arduino, and PyTorch stacks, AI-assisted development workflows, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with hardware and biology teams.
Communications systems engineer
Designs, builds, and tests free-space optical (laser) communication terminals for terrestrial, airborne, and space platforms — owning link budgets, end-to-end performance modeling, acquisition/tracking strategies, and lab and field validation. MATLAB/Python modeling is core; RF, SATCOM, fiber-optic, or wireless backgrounds are welcome.
IT Engineer
IT Engineer at Headway (mental healthcare) who splits time between the escalation tier of the support queue and owning office networking and conference room AV across three offices. Core tech: Meraki, Zoom Rooms/Neat, Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, Jira Service Management, plus automation with Tines. Hybrid - 2 days/week on-site in NYC.