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 20 active listings on Jobs Base, 5 (25%) 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.

20 active 25% remote median salary $250k

1.	Founding AI/ML Engineer / Startup / $500k+ / NYC (Open Talent) New York, United States \| $500,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| llms, rag, agentic systems \| 6mo ago
2.	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 \| 6mo ago
3.	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 \| 5mo ago
4.	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 \| 6mo ago
5.	Founding Engineer & CTO (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| executive \| python, typescript, go \| 5mo ago
6.	Software Engineer, AI (Ruli) San Francisco, California, United States \| $110,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, typescript, serverless \| 5mo ago
7.	Full Stack Engineer (Mentor Talent Acquisition) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| typescript, postgresql, llm \| 6mo ago
8.	Staff Full Stack Engineer (NYC) (Knit) New York, New York, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, fastapi, react \| 6mo ago
9.	Founding Engineer (Lance (YC W26)) San Francisco, California, United States \| $160,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, javascript, software development \| 5mo ago
10.	Technical Co-Founder (Dealiyo) United States \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| full-stack engineering, ai, llms \| 5mo ago
11.	Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States \| $170,000 – $185,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, django, typescript \| 6mo ago
12.	Founding Backend Engineer (Wingback Security) San Francisco Bay Area, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, go, typescript \| 5mo ago
13.	AI Native Junior Engineer (enter.health) United States \| $80,000 – $100,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| javascript, typescript, python \| 5mo ago
14.	Chief Technology Officer (LoanBud) New York City, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| executive \| software engineering, technology leadership, product strategy \| 5mo ago
15.	Senior GTM Engineer (Circuit) Austin, Texas, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, sql \| 5mo ago
16.	Software Engineer - AI (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, go \| 5mo ago
17.	Founding AI Engineer (Part Time) - Prompt Engineering & LLM Applications (Y22 AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| prompt engineering, llm applications, python \| 5mo ago
18.	Applied AI Engineer - Life Sciences & Healthcare (Vi) Austin, Texas, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, python, databases \| 6mo ago
19.	Entrepreneur in Residence - Technical Co-founder (CTO) (FutureSight) United States \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| applied ai, b2b, ai \| 5mo ago
20.	Lead Ultrasound Imaging Engineer (AI & Systems) (iSono Health) Sunnyvale, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| ultrasound imaging, beamforming, signal processing \| 5mo ago

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 20 active listings on Jobs Base, 5 (25%) 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.