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.

64 active 78% remote median salary $210k

1.	Founding Engineer, (Construction Operations) (Marble) Bristol, United Kingdom+2 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| software engineering fundamentals, cs foundations, data structures \| 3w ago
2.	Founding Engineer (Waypoint Learning) United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, python, mcp \| 3w ago
3.	Founding Engineer (Deep Core Technology) Canada \| CA$105,000 – CA$125,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, python, nextjs \| 1mo ago
4.	Founding Engineer (US) (Haast) United States+1 \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| go, node.js, typescript \| 1mo ago
5.	Founding Engineer (Spur) Chicago, Illinois, United States \| $120,000 – $160,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, kotlin \| 1mo ago
6.	Founding Engineer - AI-Native (NeoRecruit) India \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| flutter, dart, react.js \| 1mo ago
7.	Founding Engineer (Neighborbrite) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| generative vision models, llm, next.js \| 1mo ago
8.	Founding Engineer (Vye Health) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| react, postgresql, aws \| 1mo ago
9.	Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| go, typescript, next.js \| 1mo ago
10.	Founding Engineer - Staff Distributed Systems (Birdai Labs, Inc) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| rust, c++, distributed systems \| 1mo ago
11.	Founding Engineer (AI startup-Remote) (CyberCoders) Seattle, Washington, United States \| $170,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, machine learning, aws \| 1mo ago
12.	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 \| 1mo ago
13.	Founding Engineer (CoinBanker) United States \| remote \| part-time \| lead \| react native, react, node.js \| 1mo ago
14.	Founding AI Engineer (Part Time) - Prompt Engineering & LLM Applications (Y22 AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| prompt engineering, llm applications, python \| 1mo ago
15.	Founding AI Engineer (LinkMD AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, llm, ai \| 1mo ago
16.	Founding AI Engineer (Kaelux) United States \| From $160,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| ai engineering, langgraph, n8n \| 1mo ago
17.	Founding AI Engineer (Healthcare) (ReClym Health) United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| fastapi, react, next.js \| 1mo ago
18.	Founding AI GTM Engineer (Grasply™) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, api integration, rest api \| 1mo ago
19.	Founding DevOps Engineer (Equity-Based – Pre-Funding Startup) (Orchestrator Technology Inc) Florida, United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, production systems \| 1mo ago
20.	Founding Head of Engineering (kadence) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| full-stack development, backend development, frontend development \| 1mo ago
21.	Founding Head of Engineering (AI) (Deploy IQ) United Kingdom \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| ai/ml, llms, agent systems \| 1mo ago
22.	Founding Frontend Engineer (ASTA Health Tech) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| javascript, typescript, react \| 1mo ago
23.	Founding Software Engineer - Equity Only Role (SideKix HQ Inc.) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| react, node.js, firebase \| 1mo ago
24.	Founding Software Engineer (Ensense AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, go, postgres \| 1mo ago
25.	Founding Fullstack Engineer (AI) (Pragmatike) United Kingdom+27 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| fullstack development, backend development, frontend development \| 3w ago
26.	Founding Fullstack Engineer (AI) (Pragmatike) United Kingdom+14 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| fullstack development, backend development, frontend development \| 3w ago
27.	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 \| 1mo ago
28.	Founding Analytics Engineer (Ambrook) United States \| $140,000 – $210,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| sql, dbt, bigquery \| 1mo ago
29.	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 \| 1mo ago
30.	Founding Member (OpenWork) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| software engineering, product design \| 1mo ago
31.	AI Engineer (Vote) United States+2 \| remote \| internship \| internship \| python, machine learning, multimodal machine learning \| 1mo ago
32.	Full-stack Founding Engineer (AI/Healthcare) (ReClym Health) New York, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, llm prompt engineering, conversational ai \| 1mo ago
33.	Founding Artificial Intelligence Engineer (ASTA Health Tech) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, pytorch, tensorflow \| 1mo ago
34.	Tech Co-Founder / Founding Engineer (Equity Only) (REItrades) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| rust, actix, axum \| 1mo ago
35.	GTM Engineer (LangChain) United States \| $160,000 – $180,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, llm \| 1mo ago
36.	Head of AI (MultiBase GmbH) Germany \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| python, llms, ai agents \| 1mo ago
37.	Engineering Lead (Caribou) United Kingdom+1 \| £120,000 – £145,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| full-stack development, architecture, react \| 1mo ago
38.	Senior Software Engineer (AI) (Limelight) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| llms, prompt engineering, rag \| 1mo ago
39.	Senior Software Engineer, Data (Probably Genetic) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $210,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, sql, aws \| 1mo ago
40.	Chief Technical Officer - Founding Team (Iris AI) Dallas, Texas, United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| ai conversations, real-time streaming, low latency systems \| 1mo ago
41.	Senior AI Engineer (Fieldguide) United States \| $190,000 – $255,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, python, postgres \| 1mo ago
42.	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 \| 1mo ago
43.	RevOps Engineer (Dragonfly Operating Partners) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| clay, n8n, heyreach \| 1mo ago
44.	Software Engineer - Voice Agent (Baseten Labs) United States \| $165,000 – $330,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, docker, kubernetes \| 1mo ago
45.	Head of Engineering (Copyright Slap, Inc.) United States \| remote \| part-time \| lead \| python, node.js, web scraping \| 1mo ago
46.	Staff Software Engineer, AI - Elite Squad Team (Ironclad) United States \| $240,000 – $295,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| backend systems, distributed systems, ai \| 1mo ago
47.	Firmware Engineer (Toptal) New York, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| c/c++, rust, microcontrollers \| 1mo ago
48.	AI Automation Engineer (AI Workflows & Business Systems) (Brainlancer) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| n8n, make, clay \| 1mo ago
49.	Senior / Staff Software Engineer (SF/NY) (Fractional AI) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $230,000 – $350,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| software engineering, ai systems, system design \| 1mo ago
50.	Senior Software Engineer (Pine Park Health) United States+5 \| $190,000 – $215,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| react, remix, node.js \| 1mo ago

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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.