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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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 |
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.
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