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 153 active listings on Jobs Base, 13 (8%) 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.

153 active 8% remote median salary $250k

1.	Founding Engineer (AI startup-Remote) (CyberCoders) Seattle, Washington, United States \| $170,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, machine learning, aws \| 4mo 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 \| 4mo ago
3.	Founding Engineer (Neighborbrite) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| generative vision models, llm, next.js \| 4mo ago
4.	Lead Engineer (Ralle) United States \| remote \| part-time \| lead \| full-stack, mvp, ai \| 4mo ago
5.	Software Engineer (AI & Automation) – Fintech Startup Firm (Amakor Capital) London, London, United Kingdom \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, ai/ml, llms \| 4mo ago
6.	Founding AI Product Engineer at AI Startup (Besty AI) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai, llm, product management \| 4mo ago
7.	Founding Engineer (Albert Bow) California, United States \| Up to $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, distributed systems, llm \| 4mo ago
8.	Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| go, typescript, next.js \| 4mo ago
9.	Founding Engineer (CoinBanker) United States \| remote \| part-time \| lead \| react native, react, node.js \| 4mo ago
10.	Backend Engineer (Adapt) California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| backend, full-stack, ai products \| 4mo ago
11.	Founding Software Engineer (Monarch Recruiters) Palo Alto, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| software engineering, product design, customer support \| 4mo ago
12.	Founding DevOps Engineer (Equity-Based – Pre-Funding Startup) (Orchestrator Technology Inc) Florida, United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, production systems \| 4mo ago
13.	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 \| 4mo ago
14.	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 \| 4mo ago
15.	Full Stack Engineer (Figwork) Sunnyvale, California, United States \| $150,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| full-stack development, frontend, backend \| 4mo ago
16.	Founding Engineer (Reval) New York, New York, United States \| $180,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, postgres \| 4mo ago
17.	Full Stack Engineer (Wayco (YC W26)) Atlanta, Georgia, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, backend, postgres \| 4mo ago
18.	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 \| 3mo ago
19.	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 \| 4mo ago
20.	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 \| 4mo ago
21.	Frontier Software Engineer (GiveCampus) District of Columbia, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| react, javascript, ruby on rails \| 4mo ago
22.	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 \| 4mo ago
23.	Founding Engineer (Back-end) (Stealth Startup) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| backend engineering, apis, databases \| 4mo ago
24.	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 \| 4mo ago
25.	RevOps Engineer (Dragonfly Operating Partners) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| clay, n8n, heyreach \| 4mo ago
26.	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 \| 3mo ago
27.	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 \| 4mo ago
28.	Founding Product Engineer (Phaselaw) New York City, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| next.js, react, tailwind \| 4mo ago
29.	Applied AI Engineer (flows.cv) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| llm, agent systems, rag pipelines \| 4mo ago
30.	Founding Engineer & CTO (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| executive \| python, typescript, go \| 3mo ago
31.	Founding Engineer (Vye Health) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| react, postgresql, aws \| 4mo ago
32.	Systems Engineer \| Distributed Systems \| Python \| TypeScript \| Kubernetes \| Must have Startup Experience (Optimal) New York, New York, United States \| $240,000 – $350,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| distributed systems, python, typescript \| 4mo ago
33.	AI Builder / Junior Founding Engineer (Planetary Labour) Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| go, ai, backend \| 4mo ago
34.	Founding Engineer (ryw) Houston, Texas, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| api design, async patterns, data modeling \| 4mo ago
35.	AI Engineer (trg.recruitment) London, London, United Kingdom \| From £200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, typescript, react \| 4mo ago
36.	Software Engineer, AI (Ruli) San Francisco, California, United States \| $110,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, typescript, serverless \| 3mo ago
37.	Full Stack Engineer (Mentor Talent Acquisition) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| typescript, postgresql, llm \| 4mo ago
38.	Forward Deployed Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York City, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $225,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| production systems, integrations, ai agent configuration \| 4mo ago
39.	Founding Engineer \| Backend Infrastructure / AI Agents \| TypeScript \| Python \| Must have startup experience (Optimal) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $225,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| backend infrastructure, sre, devops \| 4mo ago
40.	Frontend Developer for Early-Stage Startup (high-impact) (Lemmi) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| html, css, typescript \| 4mo ago
41.	Senior Software Engineer ($250K - $300K + Equity) at YC-backed AI Data Infrastructure Startup (CoffeeSpace) San Francisco, California, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| next.js, react, node.js \| 4mo ago
42.	Founding AI Engineer (LinkMD AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, llm, ai \| 3mo ago
43.	Fullstack Engineer ($185K - $250K + 0.1% - 0.3% Equity) at Founders Fund-backed AI Enterprise Startup (CoffeeSpace) San Francisco, California, United States \| $185,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, react, apis \| 4mo ago
44.	Founding Frontend Engineer (Talently) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $240,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, graphql \| 4mo ago
45.	Founding Engineer & CTO (WealthyMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| executive \| python, typescript, go \| 3mo ago
46.	Founding LiDAR Perception Engineer (Metrolla) Seattle, Washington, United States \| hybrid \| contract \| lead \| lidar processing, point cloud algorithms, euclidean distance \| 4mo ago
47.	Founding AI Engineer (Farsyt) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, apis, databases \| 4mo ago
48.	AI Engineer (Dataro) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| claude code, cursor, cowork \| 3mo ago
49.	Head of Engineering (Copyright Slap, Inc.) United States \| remote \| part-time \| lead \| python, node.js, web scraping \| 4mo ago
50.	Founding Engineer (Nohi) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, react, next.js \| 4mo 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 153 active listings on Jobs Base, 13 (8%) 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.