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Posted 17 hours ago

High-impact engineering role at an early-stage legal AI startup to build production AI pipelines, own platform infrastructure, and drive product decisions alongside founders and customers.

An early-stage AI startup in San Francisco is hiring a founding engineer to build core agentic systems, prototype browser/device automation, and partner directly with founders to ship 0→1 products.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Python + React) needed to architect and scale AI-driven pharmacy automation systems at an early-stage HealthTech startup.

USAA Full-Time CHARLOTTE, North Carolina
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Posted 4 days ago

Softlight seeks a Founding Frontend Engineer in NYC to build pixel-perfect, production-facing interfaces and help shape product, engineering, and hiring at a seed-stage AI startup.

Posted 4 days ago

Help shape Softlight’s product and AI infrastructure as a founding engineer focused on building novel models and shipping product features for PMs, designers, and engineers.

Join a fast-growing AI HealthTech startup as a founding full-stack engineer to build HIPAA-compliant, production-grade AI systems that automate pharmacy workflows and improve patient care.

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Posted 4 days ago

Softlight is looking for a founding backend engineer in NYC to build and operate novel AI-backed product systems, ship production features, and help define the company's technical roadmap.

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Epsilon Inc Hybrid San Francisco
Posted 5 days ago

Lead the design and deployment of state-of-the-art vision-language and LLM-driven solutions to advance radiology diagnostics at a fast-growing healthcare AI startup.

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Awesome Motive Hybrid San Francisco
Posted 5 days ago

Lead development of state-of-the-art multi-modal vision-language and LLM-based solutions to transform radiology workflows at a fast-growing medical AI startup.

Posted 5 days ago

Join a small, technical GTM team as a founding Sales Engineer to lead technical discovery, run POCs, and shape product and sales playbooks for a developer-first platform.

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Lead the ML effort at Retell AI to build, evaluate, and deploy real-time LLM and audio models powering high-traffic voice agents.

Posted 6 days ago

Be a founding full-stack engineer at Truth Systems, owning end-to-end product delivery of real-time governance agents that protect users and meet strict reliability and latency requirements.

A boutique recruiting partner to frontier AI and deep-tech startups is hiring a remote Senior 180 Tech Recruiter to own high-impact, end-to-end engineering hires for US/UK clients.

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Posted 8 days ago

Forgepoint seeks a product-minded Founding Engineer to ship end-to-end AI-driven features (TypeScript stack) and help build the company and product from the ground floor in NYC.

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Posted 8 days ago

Agentic Studios is hiring a Founding AI Engineer to lead LLM-driven clinical workflow transformation as a co-founder with meaningful equity.

Posted 10 days ago

Lead Reducto's security and compliance efforts as the Founding Security Engineer, owning SOC2/HIPAA programs, security tooling, incident response, and enterprise trust-building.

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Posted 11 days ago

Lead SRE efforts as the founding Site Reliability Engineer at a fast-growing AI company, building scalable, secure, and observable AWS infrastructure and processes.

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Posted 11 days ago

Early-stage consumer outreach startup seeks a hands-on Founding Product Engineer to build full-stack features, large-scale email automation, and AI-driven recommendation systems on a fully remote team.

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Posted 12 days ago

Applied Labs seeks a Founding Engineer in New York City to design, ship, and own production-grade AI agent systems focused on reliability and real-world performance.

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Posted 12 days ago

Be a founding engineer at Magical to build and scale agentic AI systems that automate real-world browser workflows and deliver enterprise-grade stability and performance.

USAA Full-Time CHARLOTTE, North Carolina
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USAA Full-Time NASHVILLE, Tennessee
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Alleviate Hybrid San Francisco
Posted 12 days ago

Be a founding engineer at a seed-stage healthcare AI startup building production-grade AI agents to transform clinical trial recruitment and patient support.

Posted 12 days ago

Founding Full Stack Engineer needed to build and scale a production assessment platform that modernizes how companies hire technical talent from the company's NYC office.

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Posted 13 days ago

Lead firmware development for Omi’s AI wearable platform as the founding firmware engineer, owning firmware, hardware bring-up, and product-level technical decisions.

MLabs Hybrid No location specified
Posted 14 days ago

AfterQuery, a San Francisco-based AI startup backed by $3M, seeks a Founding Software Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of full-stack and infrastructure systems that power LLM evaluation.

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Posted 14 days ago

Early-stage P&C insurance fintech in San Francisco is hiring a founding engineer to design and build a resilient, API-first platform as an early team member.

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Posted 15 days ago

A fast-moving NYC early-stage startup seeks a founding full-stack engineer to build mobile apps, backend services, and cloud infrastructure while shaping product and technical strategy.

Posted 16 days ago

Lead the design and engineering of Shipd's UI and developer tooling to build reusable design systems, scalable quest workflows, and gamification features that drive contributor engagement.

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Posted 17 days ago

Nash is hiring a founding-level Product Engineer to build and scale core logistics infrastructure while partnering directly with customers to deliver production outcomes.

Posted 18 days ago

Work on a mission-driven team at 3Y Health as a Senior Frontend Engineer to deliver polished, scalable React/TypeScript user interfaces that improve care delivery for independent providers.

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Posted 18 days ago

An early-stage engineering leader role for an Ex-Founder/Founding Engineer to build core logistics infrastructure, ship 0→1 products, and partner closely with customers to drive real-world impact.

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Posted 19 days ago

Join an early-stage fintech startup as a Founding Fullstack Engineer to build browser-native AI agents and own core product features across frontend, backend, and automation integrations.

Posted 19 days ago

Founding Full-Stack Software Engineer needed to design backend systems and agentic AI for a Santa Monica startup building large-scale autonomous cybersecurity agents.

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Posted 20 days ago

Phaselab is seeking a Founding Backend Engineer who will own and scale backend systems (databases, ingestion, AI) and ship product features rapidly at an early-stage startup.

Posted 21 days ago

Help build the core backend infrastructure at DimRed to power large-scale LLM evaluations, agent workflows, and secure multi-tenant production systems.

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Posted 21 days ago

Founding Software Engineer at Tamarind Bio to build and scale the core infrastructure, web interface, and API products that power AI-driven drug discovery.

Posted 22 days ago

Lead the creation and launch of GovWell's first mobile app as the Founding Mobile Engineer, shaping architecture, UX, and production rollout for a fast-growing GovTech startup.

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Posted 22 days ago

Work as a founding frontend engineer at Sentra to build and ship React/TypeScript UI features that shape the product and user experience for scaling startups.

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Posted 22 days ago

Sentra is hiring a Founding Backend/Platform Engineer to build scalable backend systems and LLM-integrated platform features at an early-stage, VC-backed startup.

As a founding full-stack engineer at Ventuals, you will shape the user experience, trading APIs, and production infrastructure ahead of our mainnet launch.

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Ventuals is hiring a founding full-stack engineer to build the trading UX, backend services, and scale infrastructure for onchain markets that make private companies tradable.

USAA Full-Time TRENTON, New Jersey
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Help build Fram Energy's data platform and quality practices as the Founding Data and Quality Engineer, driving reliable pipelines and observability for a fast-moving climate and proptech startup in NYC.

Posted 23 days ago

Founding ML Engineer to design and productionize ML and GenAI systems for a profitable, mission-driven AI firm focused on climate, energy, and real-estate solutions.

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Posted 24 days ago

An early engineering hire to build and scale Tamarind Bio's DevOps/MLOps platform, web interface, and APIs while working closely with founders and customers in the SF Bay Area.

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Socratix AI is seeking a founding software engineer to design and deliver production-grade AI agents and core infrastructure for fraud and risk teams.

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August Hybrid New York City
Posted 24 days ago

August is hiring a Founding AI Engineer to design and deploy production agent systems that automate legal workflows for mid-market law firms.

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Experienced full-stack engineer needed to help build and scale an AI-driven procurement platform as a founding member of an early-stage startup (NYC, hybrid).

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Posted 30 days ago

Lead the creation of Elicit’s data platform as the Founding Data Engineer, building robust pipelines to ingest, deduplicate, and preprocess scholarly and customer data for LLM-driven workflows.

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Posted 30 days ago

Join a fast-growing healthcare AI startup as a Founding Machine Learning Engineer to productionize models, build scalable EHR pipelines, and develop new clinical AI modules that directly impact patient outcomes.

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