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Job description
A high-ownership founding engineer role working directly with the founders on product vision and implementation - one of the first engineering hires at a company with real, daily-active design partners. Building the product right now means talking directly to customers, understanding their needs, building around those problems, and iterating fast on feedback.
What you’ll be doing
- Own end-to-end product development, from design through production, shipping features that solve real customer problems
- Talk directly to design partners to understand their data challenges and validate solutions
- Build core infrastructure and backend systems powering the agent system and data-reliability platform
- Design and implement the data restructuring and linking logic that creates the company graph agents operate on
- Iterate rapidly on customer feedback and adjust the roadmap accordingly
- Ship production code with high standards for reliability and correctness on sensitive business data
Tech stack: Backend-leaning; data pipelines, agent systems, and a data-linking graph.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Startup experience?, * 1-5 years or exceptional new grads from top schools
- AI-native, daily Cursor or Claude user
- Full-stack leaning backend, shipped production code
- Customer-facing, ship features based on design-partner feedback
- NYC in-person 5 days, relocation supported, H-1B and TN visa open, * Founder or founding engineer experience
- Attended a top school and clearly learned a lot in your first role
- Strong career growth and intentional about pre-seed
- Side projects and personal shipping
- Can clearly articulate why pre-seed appeals to you
Benefits & conditions
Pulled from the full job description
- 401(k) 4% Match
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Visa sponsorship, * Heavy job hopper with no good reason
- Spray-and-pray candidate applying to everything from pre-seed through Series C
- Only big tech (FAANG) experience with no startup exposure
- Not willing to be in-person in Manhattan 5 days a week
Why Join
- Real traction: design partners already using the platform daily, backed by a fresh pre-seed round
- Founding-engineer ownership working directly with the founders, end-to-end
- 99%+ employer-paid medical, dental, and vision; 401k with 4% match; 20 days PTO; meal stipends
About the company
An early-stage, venture-backed AI company building an agent system for data reliability - restructuring and linking the messy data inside companies’ systems of record (CRMs, ERPs) into a graph that AI agents can operate on reliably, then cleaning that data autonomously with governed, secure, human-in-the-loop workflows. The product is aimed at security-conscious companies and regulated industries, and design partners are already using it daily.
Founded 2026 · 1-10 people · Industry: AI tools / data infrastructure
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