Remote Founding Engineer Jobs
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 fully remote, letting you work from anywhere.
172 jobs found
| 1. | United States | $200,000 – $250,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | computer vision, sensors, ai | Yesterday |
| 2. | Founding Engineer: MVP Architect (Equity Partner) (Le Vente, Inc. & The Riché App) United States | remote | full-time | lead | blockchain, saas, go | 6d ago |
| 3. | Founding Engineer (Castari) United States+1 | $120,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | claude agent sdk, developer tooling, clis | 6d ago |
| 4. | United States+1 | $90,000 – $130,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | typescript, next.js, react | 6d ago |
| 5. | Founding Engineer (Bloom) Switzerland+1 | $150,000 – $250,000/yr | remote | full-time | executive | typescript, swift, kotlin | 6d ago |
| 6. | Founding Engineer (Neighborbrite) United States | remote | full-time | lead | generative vision models, llm, next.js | 1w ago |
| 7. | Founding Engineer (Vye Health) United States | remote | full-time | lead | react, postgresql, aws | 1w ago |
| 8. | Founding Engineer (Elastic Ltd) United States | remote | full-time | lead | solana, rust, typescript | 1w ago |
| 9. | Founding Engineer (Orange Slice) United States+1 | $100,000 – $150,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | 1w ago |
| 10. | Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) United States | $150,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | go, typescript, next.js | 1w ago |
| 11. | Founding Engineer (Convexia) United States+1 | $90,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | agentic frameworks, evaluation systems, tool calling | 1w ago |
| 12. | Founding Engineer at Kastle (S24) (Kastle) San Francisco, California, United States | $150,000 – $210,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | python, asyncio, fastapi | 1w ago |
| 13. | Founding Engineer - Staff Distributed Systems (Birdai Labs, Inc) United States | remote | full-time | senior | rust, c++, distributed systems | 1w ago |
| 14. | Founding Engineer (AI startup-Remote) (CyberCoders) Seattle, Washington, United States | $170,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | python, machine learning, aws | 1w ago |
| 15. | 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 | 1w ago |
| 16. | Founding Engineer (CoinBanker) United States | remote | part-time | lead | react native, react, node.js | 1w ago |
| 17. | Founding Engineer (BetterDB) Remote | remote | full-time | lead | typescript, nestjs, fastify | 2w ago |
| 18. | Founding Engineer (Staff level) (3ive.ai) Germany | remote | full-time | lead | python, typescript, llm integrations | 2w ago |
| 19. | Founding Engineer (Hatchet) New York, New York, United States+11 | $160,000 – $199,999/yr | remote | full-time | lead | distributed systems, high-throughput workloads, scaling infrastructure | 2w ago |
| 20. | Founding Engineer, Full Stack (Cloudglue) San Francisco, California, United States+1 | $120,000 – $250,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | react, typescript, next.js | 2w ago |
| 21. | Founding Engineer, Infrastructure (Cloudglue) United States+3 | $120,000 – $250,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | python, go, typescript | 2w ago |
| 22. | Founding Engineer (Trelium) San Francisco, California, United States+2 | $125,000 – $150,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | agentic workflow frameworks, communication infrastructure, ai agent sdks | 3w ago |
| 23. | Founding Engineer (Dench.com) United States+2 | $100,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | python, typescript, go | 3w ago |
| 24. | Founding Engineer (Constant) United States+2 | $150,000 – $225,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | codex, cursor, langgraph | 3w ago |
| 25. | Founding Engineer (Fullstack) (Onlook) United States+1 | $130,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | next.js, tailwindcss, trpc | 3w ago |
| 26. | Founding Engineer (zudo.work) Canada+4 | $90,000 – $110,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | video editing, animation, content creation | 3w ago |
| 27. | Founding Engineer (Applied AI) (Centralize) United States+1 | $130,000 – $190,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | llm, nlp, rag pipelines | 3w ago |
| 28. | Founding Engineer (Frontend) (Letter AI) United States+2 | $100,000 – $150,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | react, redux, material ui | 3w ago |
| 29. | Founding Engineer (Deep24) United States | $120,000 – $160,000/yr | remote | contract | lead | ai, machine learning, software engineering | 3w ago |
| 30. | Founding Engineer - Backend (FutureClinic) Brooklyn, New York, United States+1 | $180,000 – $250,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | typescript, node.js, postgresql | 3w ago |
| 31. | Founding Engineer (Untether Labs) Canada | CA$65,000 – CA$190,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | typescript, react, nextjs | 3w ago |
| 32. | Founding Engineer (Attain) United States+1 | $100,000 – $180,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | full stack development, product development, software development | 3w ago |
| 33. | Founding Engineer - Backend (DiligenceSquared) New York, New York, United States | $160,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | python, backend development, api design | 3w ago |
| 34. | Founding Engineer (NOSO LABS) San Francisco, California, United States+1 | $120,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | react native, python, llm | 3w ago |
| 35. | United States+5 | $100,000 – $130,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | python, react, nextjs | 3w ago |
| 36. | Founding Engineer (Cair Health) United States | $110,000 – $160,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | software development, machine learning, predictive analytics | 3w ago |
| 37. | Founding Engineer (Spot Health) United States | $100,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | react, django, postgres | 3w ago |
| 38. | Founding Engineer (Kontigo) United States+1 | $40,000 – $120,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | next.js, react native, supabase | 4w ago |
| 39. | Founding Engineer (Full-Stack) (Centralize) United States+1 | $130,000 – $190,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | react, nextjs, background jobs | 1mo ago |
| 40. | Founding Engineer (Rulebricks) Palo Alto, California, United States+1 | $120,000 – $150,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | javascript, vue.js, python | 1mo ago |
| 41. | Founding Engineer (Vulcan Technologies) United States | $80,000 – $250,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | python, typescript, javascript | 1mo ago |
| 42. | Founding AI Engineer (Healthcare) (ReClym Health) United States+1 | remote | full-time | lead | fastapi, react, next.js | 3d ago |
| 43. | Founding AI Engineer (Agentic Systems) (Cortif Technologies) United States | remote | part-time | lead | agentic workflows, autonomous systems, observability | 5d ago |
| 44. | Founding AI Engineer (Closure) United States+2 | $135,000 – $230,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | machine learning, deep learning, python | 1w ago |
| 45. | Founding AI Engineer (Hera) Berlin, Germany+4 | €80,000 – €129,999/yr | remote | full-time | lead | typescript, react.js, next.js | 2w ago |
| 46. | Founding AI Engineer (Rebolt) San Francisco, California, United States+4 | $60,000 – $180,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | llm internals, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks | 3w ago |
| 47. | Founding AI Engineer (Delfino AI) United States | $80,000 – $180,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | python, javascript, generative ai | 3w ago |
| 48. | Founding BIM Engineer (ArchiLabs) United States+1 | $100,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | bim, python, ai | 3w ago |
| 49. | Mexico City, Mexico+2 | $60,000 – $90,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | react native, expo, backend infrastructure | 3w ago |
| 50. | Founding Data Engineer • PG/Opensearch (Neuroscale AI) Virginia, United States+2 | $100,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | python, typescript, postgresql | 1w ago |