Founding Engineer Jobs in the United States

Founding engineers are the first engineering hires at early-stage startups. They build products from zero, own the full stack, and shape the technical direction of the company. These positions are based in the US, across major tech hubs and beyond.

685 jobs found

1.	Founding Engineer (Staff Level) \| Computer Vision and Sensors \| Start up \| 100% remote \| $200,000 - $250,000 USD + Equity (White Bay) United States \| $200,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| computer vision, sensors, ai \| Yesterday
2.	Founding Engineer (Backend / AI Infrastructure) (Employvision Inc.) New York, New York, United States+1 \| $150,000 – $210,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, react \| Yesterday
3.	Founding Engineer ($150k-$250k + Equity) at Toolkit (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| system design, scalability, agent orchestration \| Yesterday
4.	Founding Engineer at Forgepoint (Jack & Jill) New York City, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, node.js, react \| Yesterday
5.	Founding Engineer ($180K–$220K + 0.5%–2% Equity) at Fig AI (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| gemini, anthropic, kotlin \| 2d ago
6.	Founding Engineer (Full Stack) (Capital City Talent Solutions) San Francisco, California, United States \| $200,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, node.js, backend \| 2d ago
7.	Founding Engineer (AI Software Engineer) (Avacend Inc) New York City, New York, United States \| hybrid \| contract \| entry \| python, typescript, llm apis \| 2d ago
8.	Founding Engineer ($140K-$180K + Equity) at Nero (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| $140,000 – $180,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| executive \| typescript, react, node.js \| 4d ago
9.	Founding Engineer at Cascade (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| executive \| full-stack engineering, AI, data ingestion \| 4d ago
10.	Founding Engineer (Blockchain/Backend) (ParlayX) Los Angeles, California, United States \| $100,000 – $150,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| blockchain, backend, prediction markets \| 5d ago
11.	Founding Engineer \| Python / TypeScript \| AI Systems \| NYC (Onsite) (Sartre Group) New York City, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, next.js \| 5d ago
12.	Founding Engineer (ryw) Houston, Texas, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| api design, async patterns, data modeling \| 5d ago
13.	Founding Engineer at Tightrope AI, Inc. (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| $160,000 – $250,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| executive \| python, react, backend systems \| 5d ago
14.	Founding Engineer ($170k-$350k + Equity) at well-funded AI infrastructure startup (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| $170,000 – $350,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| distributed systems, typescript, kubernetes \| 5d ago
15.	Founding Engineer (Competitive + Equity) at Stealth (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $180,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| node.js, python, supabase \| 5d ago
16.	Founding Engineer ($225k+ + Equity) at well-funded healthcare AI startup (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| $225,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| gpu/cuda acceleration, distributed systems, rag/llm pipelines \| 5d ago
17.	Founding Engineer: MVP Architect (Equity Partner) (Le Vente, Inc. & The Riché App) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| blockchain, saas, go \| 6d ago
18.	Founding Engineer (Castari) United States+1 \| $120,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| claude agent sdk, developer tooling, clis \| 6d ago
19.	Founding Engineer - Full Stack (Remote / Hybrid / San Francisco) (Dimely) United States+1 \| $90,000 – $130,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, next.js, react \| 6d ago
20.	Founding Engineer (Bloom) Switzerland+1 \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| typescript, swift, kotlin \| 6d ago
21.	Founding Engineer (Overdrive Health) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, llms, ai agents \| 6d ago
22.	Founding Engineer (Multifactor) San Francisco, California, United States \| $145,000 – $195,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| oauth, fido2, webauthn \| 6d ago
23.	Founding Engineer (AI / Full Stack) (Rovi Health) New York City, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $220,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, react, typescript \| 6d ago
24.	Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States \| $170,000 – $185,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, django, typescript \| 6d ago
25.	Founding Engineer (Storm2) San Francisco, California, United States \| $200,000 – $250,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| node.js, typescript, aws \| 6d ago
26.	Founding Engineer ($125K - $200K + Equity) at Seed-stage healthtech AI platform (Jack & Jill) New York, New York, United States \| $125,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, node.js \| 6d ago
27.	Founding Engineer - AI ($200K+ + Equity) at Muro AI (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, fastapi, celery \| 6d ago
28.	Founding Engineer (AI-Native) (Capsure AI) Los Angeles, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| react, typescript, node.js \| 1w ago
29.	Founding Engineer (Arvo) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| rust, react, tauri \| 1w ago
30.	Founding Engineer (Replicas) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai, software engineering, product development \| 1w ago
31.	Founding Engineer (10x Science) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $150,000 – $240,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| rust, c++, go \| 1w ago
32.	Founding Engineer (Arcadia) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| react, typescript, python \| 1w ago
33.	Founding Engineer (Neighborbrite) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| generative vision models, llm, next.js \| 1w ago
34.	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 \| 1w ago
35.	Founding Engineer (Vye Health) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| react, postgresql, aws \| 1w ago
36.	Founding Engineer (Bustem.com) New York City, New York, United States \| $140,000 – $180,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| next.js, postgres, backend infrastructure \| 1w ago
37.	Founding Engineer (Frontend) (Momentic) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $220,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, next.js \| 1w ago
38.	Founding Engineer (Albert Bow) California, United States \| Up to $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, distributed systems, llm \| 1w ago
39.	Founding Engineer (Arcadia) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| react, python, aws \| 1w ago
40.	Founding Engineer at Quest AI (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| executive \| llms, agents, memory orchestration \| 1w ago
41.	Founding Engineer (Elastic Ltd) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| solana, rust, typescript \| 1w ago
42.	Founding Engineer ($180K-220K + Equity) at Corveris (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| react, node, python \| 1w ago
43.	Founding Engineer, Agentic Business Transformation (BuildOps) Los Angeles, California, United States \| $188,000 – $273,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| large language models, prompt engineering, automation \| 1w ago
44.	Founding Engineer (Nohi) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, react, next.js \| 1w ago
45.	Founding Engineering Lead (AnswerThis) San Francisco, California, United States \| $170,000 – $240,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai agent systems, technical architecture, product development \| 1w ago
46.	Founding Engineer (Orange Slice) United States+1 \| $100,000 – $150,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| 1w ago
47.	Founding Engineer (Ruby) (Finta) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ruby on rails, hotwire, stimulus \| 1w ago
48.	Founding Engineer (Yarn) New York, New York, United States \| $170,000 – $225,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai, video editing, diffusion models \| 1w ago
49.	Founding Engineer (Full-Stack) (Uplane) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| node.js, typescript, nuxt \| 1w ago
50.	Founding Engineer (Systems + ML) (Partcl) San Francisco, California, United States \| $130,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| pytorch, cuda, gpu profiling \| 1w ago

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Founding Engineer Jobs in the United States

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