Founding Engineer
Summary
Founding engineer at an early-stage data infrastructure and analytics startup building AI-native systems for the offline economy, starting with CPG. You'll build evaluation platforms, terabyte-scale data infrastructure, and production AI agents end to end, working directly with customers using Python/TypeScript, Next.js, GCP, and Terraform.
About the Role
Join an early-stage data infrastructure and analytics company building AI-native systems for the offline economy, starting with consumer packaged goods. As a founding engineer, you will work across product and infrastructure, partner directly with customers, and help shape the engineering culture from the ground up.
What You'll Do
Build and deploy evaluation platforms that create fast feedback loops around product outcomes.
Develop foundational data infrastructure for single-tenant and multi-tenant environments at terabyte scale.
Own end-to-end delivery of production AI agents for customer use cases.
Design a context layer that captures how organizations operate internally.
Collaborate with customers to understand business objectives and build software for finance, sales, and operations.
Help define the technical standards and team culture as an early member of the company.
What We're Looking For
At least 3 years of backend or full-stack engineering experience, with experience delivering projects that have measurable impact.
Fluency in a server-side language such as Python, Go, Java, or Rust, as well as TypeScript and customer-facing product development.
Experience with data infrastructure, data pipelines, or extraction systems, and strong debugging skills in production environments.
Experience using AI-native development tools and workflows, including coding agents and related integrations.
Background at a high-growth technology company or as a founder or early engineer at a venture-backed startup.
Strong computer science fundamentals, demonstrated through education or equivalent software engineering experience.
Experience with Python, TypeScript, Next.js, GCP, and Terraform is relevant.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $150,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in New York, New York.
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