What does a founding engineer in new york earn?

NYC base salaries track close to SF for senior builder roles, and the city has a heavier mix of fintech, healthtech, and enterprise-AI startups than the Bay. The typical band for a founding engineer runs $130k–$220k base + 0.5%–2% equity.

Are founding engineer jobs in new york remote-friendly?

0 of the current 24 listings (0%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in New York.

What companies hire founding engineer jobs in new york?

Jobs Base aggregates listings across YC-backed startups, growth-stage companies, and selected larger companies hiring with builder-role characteristics.

What's the difference between a founding engineer and a regular founding engineer?

Jobs Base only lists builder roles. Positions where one person owns the product end-to-end. We filter out ticket-driven, narrowly-scoped roles even when the title matches. About 9% of listings scraped match this definition.

Founding Engineer Jobs in New York

NYC founding engineer hiring leans fintech, healthtech, and enterprise AI more than SF does. The compensation bar is similar at the top end, and the talent pool skews more toward engineers with prior big-company experience (often Stripe, Two Sigma, JaneStreet, or Goldman alumni who pivoted). Office requirements vary: Manhattan and Brooklyn-based startups commonly run 3-day hybrid; pre-seed often defaults to 5 days. New grad founding-engineer hires happen here, but rarely.

24 active median salary $240k

1.	Founding Engineer (Stilta) New York, NY, United States+1 \| $100,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, ai agents \| 1mo ago
2.	Founding Engineering Lead (Meeno) New York, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| backend, mobile, web \| 1mo ago
3.	Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States \| $170,000 – $185,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, django, typescript \| 1mo ago
4.	Founding Engineer \| Backend Infrastructure / AI Agents \| TypeScript \| Python \| Must have startup experience (Optimal) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $225,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| backend infrastructure, sre, devops \| 1mo ago
5.	Founding Engineer (Reval) New York, New York, United States \| $180,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, postgres \| 2mo ago
6.	Founding AI Engineer (Edelman Legal Consulting PLLC) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| contract \| lead \| ai, rag, llm \| 1mo ago
7.	Founding AI Engineer (RDE Advisors, Inc.) New York, New York, United States \| $65,000 – $80,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| next.js 14, typescript, tailwind css \| 1mo ago
8.	Founding ML Engineer / Series A / NYC / $250k + Founding Equity (Open Talent) New York, New York, United States \| $250,000 – $500,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, pytorch, llms \| 1mo ago
9.	Founding AI/ML Engineer (Prismera) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| llm orchestration, retrieval infrastructure, document understanding \| 1mo ago
10.	Founding AI/ML Engineer / Startup / $500k+ / NYC (Open Talent) New York, United States \| $500,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| llms, rag, agentic systems \| 1mo ago
11.	Founding Product Engineer (VOYGR) New York, New York, United States+1 \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, fastapi, llm prompting \| 1mo ago
12.	Founding Software Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, next.js \| 1mo ago
13.	Founding Frontend Engineer (Talently) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $240,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, graphql \| 1mo ago
14.	Founding Full Stack Engineer (Berkley Hunt) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, nodejs \| 1mo ago
15.	Founding AI Product Engineer at AI Startup (Besty AI) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai, llm, product management \| 1mo ago
16.	Founding UX / Fullstack Engineer (Subconscious AI) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai engineering, agentic engineering, react \| 1mo ago
17.	Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Adaptive Security) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, java, typescript \| 1mo ago
18.	AI Software Engineer, Founding Team (Gabriel Talent Consulting) New York, New York, United States+1 \| $230,000 – $265,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, postgresql, redis \| 1mo ago
19.	AI Engineer (Rilla) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, fastapi \| 2mo ago
20.	AI Engineer & Product Lead (Lettermark) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| llm, agent architecture, context management \| 1mo ago
21.	MLE @ Krnel (NYC, Full-Time) (krnel.ai) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| machine learning, devops, ci/cd \| 3w ago
22.	Senior Software Engineer - AI Products (Rippling) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, django, react \| 1mo ago
23.	AI/ML Engineer \| Python \| LLM Agents \| Agentic Workflows \| Must have startup experience (Optimal) New York, New York, United States \| $180,000 – $280,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, llm agents, agentic workflows \| 1mo ago
24.	Technical Intern (in person, summer '26) (SimCare) New York, New York, United States \| $7,000 – $11,000/yr \| on-site \| internship \| internship \| nextjs, fastapi, supabase \| 1mo ago

Frequently asked questions

What does a founding engineer in new york earn?: NYC base salaries track close to SF for senior builder roles, and the city has a heavier mix of fintech, healthtech, and enterprise-AI startups than the Bay. The typical band for a founding engineer runs $130k–$220k base + 0.5%–2% equity.
Are founding engineer jobs in new york remote-friendly?: 0 of the current 24 listings (0%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in New York.
What companies hire founding engineer jobs in new york?: Jobs Base aggregates listings across YC-backed startups, growth-stage companies, and selected larger companies hiring with builder-role characteristics.
What's the difference between a founding engineer and a regular founding engineer?: Jobs Base only lists builder roles. Positions where one person owns the product end-to-end. We filter out ticket-driven, narrowly-scoped roles even when the title matches. About 9% of listings scraped match this definition.