What does a startup engineer typically earn?

Typical compensation for a startup engineer runs $120k–$200k base + early-stage equity. Salaries skew higher at well-funded US startups and lower outside the US; equity grants vary sharply by stage.

How many startup engineer jobs are remote-friendly?

Across the current 351 active listings on Jobs Base, 14 (4%) are fully remote. The rest split between on-site and hybrid.

How often are new startup engineer jobs posted?

Jobs Base ingests new startup engineer jobs continuously. New listings appear daily across the major sources we ingest.

Startup Engineer Jobs

Startup engineer is the generalist tag. Companies use it when they want someone who can move across the stack and absorb whatever role is most broken on a given day. Practically, that means writing code, fixing the deploy, doing some on-call, sitting in customer calls, and occasionally writing a marketing landing page because the founder ran out of bandwidth. The roles range from pre-seed (you, the founder, and a Linear board) to Series B (you and 12 other engineers, but still moving fast). Builder-role versions of this title give you autonomy over a slice of the product.

351 active 4% remote median salary $220k

1.	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
2.	Founding AI/ML Engineer / Startup / $500k+ / NYC (Open Talent) New York, United States \| $500,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| llms, rag, agentic systems \| 1mo ago
3.	Founding Engineer (Spur) Chicago, Illinois, United States \| $120,000 – $160,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, kotlin \| 1mo ago
4.	Founding Engineer (Aurorin CAD) San Francisco, California, United States \| $100,000 – $150,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| systems programming, native applications, swift \| 1mo ago
5.	Founding Engineer (Neighborbrite) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| generative vision models, llm, next.js \| 1mo ago
6.	Lead Engineer (Ralle) United States \| remote \| part-time \| lead \| full-stack, mvp, ai \| 1mo ago
7.	Software Engineer (AI & Automation) – Fintech Startup Firm (Amakor Capital) London, London, United Kingdom \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, ai/ml, llms \| 1mo ago
8.	Founding AI Product Engineer at AI Startup (Besty AI) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai, llm, product management \| 1mo ago
9.	Founding Engineer (Albert Bow) California, United States \| Up to $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, distributed systems, llm \| 1mo ago
10.	Founding Engineer (kadence) New York City, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, gcp, docker \| 3w ago
11.	Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| go, typescript, next.js \| 1mo ago
12.	Founding Engineer (CoinBanker) United States \| remote \| part-time \| lead \| react native, react, node.js \| 1mo ago
13.	Autonomy Software Engineer - Physical AI Startup - former Palantir & Anduril Leaders (Strativ Group) New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| c++, python, robotics \| 1mo ago
14.	Backend Engineer (Adapt) California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| backend, full-stack, ai products \| 1mo ago
15.	Founding Software Engineer (Monarch Recruiters) Palo Alto, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| software engineering, product design, customer support \| 1mo ago
16.	Software Engineer (Dover) California, United States+1 \| $100,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| 1mo ago
17.	Principle Software Engineer (Block MB) London, United Kingdom \| Up to £160,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, async python, llms \| 1mo ago
18.	Product Engineer (ClaimSorted) London, England, United Kingdom \| £80,000 – £150,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| full-stack engineering, nextjs, nodejs \| 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.	Product Engineer (Imbue) San Francisco, California, United States \| $170,000 – $350,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| react, typescript, python \| 1mo ago
21.	Software Engineer (SF) (Fractional AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| $160,000 – $220,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| software engineering, ai systems, system design \| 1mo ago
22.	Full Stack Engineer (Underdog.io -Apply to top tech jobs in 60 seconds. A place where companies apply to you) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| react, django, full stack development \| 1mo ago
23.	Product Engineer (Moonset Health) Seattle, WA, United States \| $120,000 – $180,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| react, react native, fastapi \| 1mo ago
24.	Product Engineer (Y Combinator) San Francisco, California, United States \| $185,000 – $485,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| rails, react, full-stack \| 1mo ago
25.	AI/ML Engineer \| Python \| LLM Agents \| Agentic Workflows \| Must have startup experience (Optimal) New York, New York, United States \| $180,000 – $280,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, llm agents, agentic workflows \| 1mo ago
26.	Full Stack Engineer (Figwork) Sunnyvale, California, United States \| $150,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| full-stack development, frontend, backend \| 1mo ago
27.	Founding Engineer (Reval) New York, New York, United States \| $180,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, postgres \| 1mo ago
28.	Hardcore Engineer (All Levels) (DualEntry) European Union+3 \| $120,000 – $300,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| programming, problem solving \| 1mo ago
29.	Full Stack Engineer (Wayco (YC W26)) Atlanta, Georgia, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, backend, postgres \| 1mo ago
30.	Harness Engineer (Substrate) San Francisco, California, United States \| $140,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| llm, machine learning, ai \| 1mo ago
31.	Founding Engineer (Chasi) San Francisco, California, United States \| $120,000 – $170,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, react, next.js \| 1mo ago
32.	Founding Engineer ($170K - $250K + 0.5% - 1.5% Equity) at Healthcare AI startup backed by Scale AI Angels (CoffeeSpace) San Francisco, California, United States \| $170,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, cloud platforms \| 1mo ago
33.	Founding Engineer ($200K - $250K + Up to 1% Equity) at YC-backed AI GTM startup (CoffeeSpace) San Francisco, California, United States \| $200,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, next.js \| 1mo ago
34.	Founding Engineer (Arcadia) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| react, typescript, python \| 1mo ago
35.	Full Stack Engineer (Underdog.io -Apply to top tech jobs in 60 seconds. A place where companies apply to you) New York City, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| react, next.js, typescript \| 1mo ago
36.	Frontier Software Engineer (GiveCampus) District of Columbia, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| react, javascript, ruby on rails \| 1mo ago
37.	Engineering, GTM (AirOps) San Francisco, United States+2 \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| llm, rag, python \| 3w ago
38.	Founding Software Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, next.js \| 1mo ago
39.	Founding Engineer (Back-end) (Stealth Startup) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| backend engineering, apis, databases \| 1mo ago
40.	Software Engineer (Clad) New York City, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| software engineering, ai, construction \| 3w ago
41.	Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Empathy Talent) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $230,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| react, typescript, node.js \| 1mo ago
42.	Product Engineer (CoPlane) New York City, New York, United States+2 \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, typescript, react \| 1mo ago
43.	Founding Engineer (SF, On-site) (Caddie AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $180,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 2mo ago
44.	RevOps Engineer (Dragonfly Operating Partners) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| clay, n8n, heyreach \| 1mo ago
45.	Software Engineer, AI x Healthcare (Asha Health (YC F24)) Manhattan, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| backend engineering, ai agents, product management \| 1mo ago
46.	Software Engineer ($180K - $220K + Equity) at YC-backed AI Data Infrastructure Startup (CoffeeSpace) San Francisco, California, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| next.js, react, python \| 1mo ago
47.	Software Engineer (Conduit) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, django, svelte \| 1mo ago
48.	Software Engineer, Product (Prelim) United States \| $160,000 – $170,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| react, node.js, postgresql \| 1mo ago
49.	Founding Product Engineer (Phaselaw) New York City, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| next.js, react, tailwind \| 1mo ago
50.	Applied AI Engineer (flows.cv) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| llm, agent systems, rag pipelines \| 1mo ago

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Frequently asked questions

What is a startup engineer?: Startup engineer is the generalist tag. Companies use it when they want someone who can move across the stack and absorb whatever role is most broken on a given day. Practically, that means writing code, fixing the deploy, doing some on-call, sitting in customer calls, and occasionally writing a marketing landing page because the founder ran out of bandwidth. The roles range from pre-seed (you, the founder, and a Linear board) to Series B (you and 12 other engineers, but still moving fast). Builder-role versions of this title give you autonomy over a slice of the product.
What does a startup engineer typically earn?: Typical compensation for a startup engineer runs $120k–$200k base + early-stage equity. Salaries skew higher at well-funded US startups and lower outside the US; equity grants vary sharply by stage.
How many startup engineer jobs are remote-friendly?: Across the current 351 active listings on Jobs Base, 14 (4%) are fully remote. The rest split between on-site and hybrid.
How often are new startup engineer jobs posted?: Jobs Base ingests new startup engineer jobs continuously. New listings appear daily across the major sources we ingest.