Hybrid Founding Engineer – AI Startups, Pre-seed, Seed

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About the role

  • Founding Engineer shaping the technical and product DNA of AI startups backed by a venture capital firm. Join as an early technical leader with significant autonomy and ownership.

Responsibilities

  • A new wave of technically ambitious AI companies
  • Be employed directly by one of our portfolio companies
  • Work directly with founders and operate with significant autonomy
  • Have outsized ownership in businesses aiming to define new categories
  • Join as an early technical leader and influence over architecture, product direction, and engineering culture
  • Work on hard, unsolved problems in AI, ML, systems, and developer tooling
  • Competitive early-stage equity and meaningful long-term upside
  • Opportunities across infrastructure-heavy, research-driven, and product-led AI companies

Requirements

  • Engineers who want **founder-level responsibility and impact**
  • People comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration
  • Builders who care about both **technical excellence and real-world outcomes**
  • Candidates who are excited by early-stage risk in exchange for learning, ownership, and upside
  • Who These Roles Are Not For
  • Engineers looking for highly structured environments or narrow scopes
  • Those seeking incremental improvements on mature systems
  • People uninterested in equity-heavy compensation or early-stage dynamics

Job title

Founding Engineer – AI Startups, Pre-seed, Seed

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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