What does a founding engineer remote earn?

Remote builder roles often pay 5–15% below the equivalent SF on-site band but offer wider geographic flexibility. The typical band for a founding engineer runs $130k–$220k base + 0.5%–2% equity.

Are founding engineer jobs remote remote-friendly?

Every listing on this page is fully remote. That's the filter.

What companies hire founding engineer jobs remote?

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.

Remote Founding Engineer Jobs

Remote founding engineer roles split into two camps: companies that are remote-first by design (often Europe-anchored), and US companies that hire remote because the right candidate isn't in the Bay Area. Compensation tends to come in 5–15% below the equivalent SF on-site offer, but with a wider candidate pool the bar is high. Most listings expect demonstrable shipping history (open source, side projects, prior 0-to-1 work). Async communication is the default; synchronous-only teams tend not to advertise as remote-first.

39 active 100% remote median salary $225k

1.	Founding Engineer - AI-Native (NeoRecruit) India \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| flutter, dart, react.js \| 3mo ago
2.	Founding Engineer (Neighborbrite) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| generative vision models, llm, next.js \| 3mo ago
3.	Founding Engineer (Vye Health) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| react, postgresql, aws \| 3mo ago
4.	Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| go, typescript, next.js \| 3mo ago
5.	Founding Engineer - Staff Distributed Systems (Birdai Labs, Inc) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| rust, c++, distributed systems \| 3mo ago
6.	Founding Engineer (AI startup-Remote) (CyberCoders) Seattle, Washington, United States \| $170,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, machine learning, aws \| 3mo ago
7.	Founding Engineer (Python, Typescript, React) (Trinity Consulting Group) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $180,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 3mo ago
8.	Founding Engineer (CoinBanker) United States \| remote \| part-time \| lead \| react native, react, node.js \| 3mo ago
9.	Founding AI Engineer (Part Time) - Prompt Engineering & LLM Applications (Y22 AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| prompt engineering, llm applications, python \| 2mo ago
10.	Founding AI Engineer (LinkMD AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, llm, ai \| 2mo ago
11.	Founding AI Engineer (Kaelux) United States \| From $160,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| ai engineering, langgraph, n8n \| 2mo ago
12.	Founding AI Engineer (Healthcare) (ReClym Health) United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| fastapi, react, next.js \| 3mo ago
13.	Founding AI GTM Engineer (Grasply™) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, api integration, rest api \| 3mo ago
14.	Founding DevOps Engineer (Equity-Based – Pre-Funding Startup) (Orchestrator Technology Inc) Florida, United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, production systems \| 3mo ago
15.	Founding Head of Engineering (kadence) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| full-stack development, backend development, frontend development \| 3mo ago
16.	Founding Head of Engineering (AI) (Deploy IQ) United Kingdom \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| ai/ml, llms, agent systems \| 3mo ago
17.	Founding Frontend Engineer (ASTA Health Tech) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| javascript, typescript, react \| 3mo ago
18.	Founding Software Engineer - Equity Only Role (SideKix HQ Inc.) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| react, node.js, firebase \| 3mo ago
19.	Founding Software Engineer (Ensense AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, go, postgres \| 3mo ago
20.	Founding Senior AI Engineer (Equity-Only / Part-Time) — RAG, Conversational AI & Agentic Systems (Really Global) United States \| remote \| part-time \| senior \| python, retrieval systems, semantic search \| 2mo ago
21.	Founding AI Platform Engineer – Autonomous AI Systems (LLMs, RL, Reasoning) (Hudson Modeling) New York, United States \| $350,000 – $450,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| llm, reinforcement learning, rl \| 3mo ago
22.	AI Engineer (Vote) United States+2 \| remote \| internship \| internship \| python, machine learning, multimodal machine learning \| 3mo ago
23.	Full-stack Founding Engineer (AI/Healthcare) (ReClym Health) New York, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, llm prompt engineering, conversational ai \| 3mo ago
24.	Founding Artificial Intelligence Engineer (ASTA Health Tech) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, pytorch, tensorflow \| 3mo ago
25.	Tech Co-Founder / Founding Engineer (Equity Only) (REItrades) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| rust, actix, axum \| 3mo ago
26.	Head of AI (MultiBase GmbH) Germany \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| python, llms, ai agents \| 3mo ago
27.	Senior Software Engineer (AI) (Limelight) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| llms, prompt engineering, rag \| 3mo ago
28.	Chief Technical Officer - Founding Team (Iris AI) Dallas, Texas, United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| ai conversations, real-time streaming, low latency systems \| 3mo ago
29.	Founding AI Platform Architect – Autonomous AI Systems (LLMs, RL, Reasoning) (Hudson Modeling) New York City, New York, United States \| $350,000 – $450,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| llm, reinforcement learning, reasoning systems \| 3mo ago
30.	RevOps Engineer (Dragonfly Operating Partners) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| clay, n8n, heyreach \| 3mo ago
31.	Head of Engineering (Copyright Slap, Inc.) United States \| remote \| part-time \| lead \| python, node.js, web scraping \| 3mo ago
32.	AI Automation Engineer (AI Workflows & Business Systems) (Brainlancer) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| n8n, make, clay \| 3mo ago
33.	Chief Technology Officer (Neuroscale AI) United States \| $150,000 – $350,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| typescript, nestjs, python \| 3mo ago
34.	Frontier Software Engineer (GiveCampus) District of Columbia, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| react, javascript, ruby on rails \| 3mo ago
35.	Senior Software Engineer - Special Projects (Jobgether) United States \| $200,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| distributed systems, backend development, rust \| 3mo ago
36.	Frontend Developer for Early-Stage Startup (high-impact) (Lemmi) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| html, css, typescript \| 3mo ago
37.	Entrepreneur in Residence - Technical Co-founder (CTO) (FutureSight) United States \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| applied ai, b2b, ai \| 2mo ago
38.	Badass Head of AI & Other Tech Stuff (Uluru Advisors) United States \| $110,000 – $140,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| zapier, make, n8n \| 2mo ago
39.	Head of Product - AIVM (Agentic AI & Blockchain Platform) - Asia (ChainGPT) India+417 \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| product management, ai/ml infrastructure, blockchain \| 2mo ago

Frequently asked questions

What does a founding engineer remote earn?: Remote builder roles often pay 5–15% below the equivalent SF on-site band but offer wider geographic flexibility. The typical band for a founding engineer runs $130k–$220k base + 0.5%–2% equity.
Are founding engineer jobs remote remote-friendly?: Every listing on this page is fully remote. That's the filter.
What companies hire founding engineer jobs remote?: 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.