What does a startup engineer in new york earn?

NYC base salaries track close to SF for senior builder roles, and the city has a heavier mix of fintech, healthtech, and enterprise-AI startups than the Bay. The typical band for a startup engineer runs $120k–$200k base + early-stage equity.

Are startup engineer jobs in new york remote-friendly?

2 of the current 56 listings (4%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in New York.

What companies hire startup engineer jobs in new york?

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 startup engineer and a regular startup 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.

Startup Engineer Jobs in New York

NYC startup engineer roles cluster at fintech, B2B SaaS, and the AI startup scene. Compensation is competitive with SF for senior roles. Office expectation is usually 3-day hybrid; pre-seed often defaults to 5-day. The talent pool here skews more "ex-big-finance" than SF, which shapes the type of startup-engineer hire. Engineers comfortable with regulated environments, structured release processes, and direct customer contact.

56 active 4% 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 \| 1mo ago
2.	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
3.	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
4.	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
5.	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
6.	Founding Engineer (Reval) New York, New York, United States \| $180,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, postgres \| 1mo ago
7.	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
8.	Software Engineer (Jack) New York, New York, United States \| $80,000 – $140,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| frontend development, react, full-stack \| 1mo ago
9.	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 \| 1mo ago
10.	Full Stack Engineer (Mentor Talent Acquisition) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| typescript, postgresql, llm \| 1mo ago
11.	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 \| 1mo ago
12.	AI Product Engineer - Private Equity Platform (The D. E. Shaw Group) New York, New York, United States \| $185,000 – $250,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| llms, agentic frameworks, apis \| 1mo ago
13.	Software Engineer (Lantern) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, fastapi, next.js \| 4w ago
14.	Founding Frontend Engineer (Talently) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $240,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, graphql \| 1mo ago
15.	Founding Engineer (Cofia) New York, New York, United States \| $180,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| full stack, production software, distributed systems \| 1mo ago
16.	Founding AI Engineer (RDE Advisors, Inc.) New York, New York, United States \| $65,000 – $80,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| next.js 14, typescript, tailwind css \| 1mo ago
17.	Founding Full Stack Engineer (Berkley Hunt) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, nodejs \| 1mo ago
18.	Founding AI Engineer (Edelman Legal Consulting PLLC) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| contract \| lead \| ai, rag, llm \| 1mo ago
19.	Staff Full Stack Engineer (NYC) (Knit) New York, New York, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, fastapi, react \| 1mo ago
20.	AI Software Engineer, Founding Team (Gabriel Talent Consulting) New York, New York, United States+1 \| $230,000 – $265,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, postgresql, redis \| 1mo ago
21.	AI / Full Stack Engineer (Rovi Health) New York, New York, United States \| $130,000 – $170,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, react, typescript \| 1mo ago
22.	MLE @ Krnel (NYC, Full-Time) (krnel.ai) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| machine learning, devops, ci/cd \| 3w ago
23.	Senior AI Product Engineer (Metaforms) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, langchain, langgraph \| 1mo ago
24.	Staff Fullstack Engineer (uiAgent) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| react, node.js, kubernetes \| 1mo ago
25.	AI Fullstack Engineer – Build Real-World Systems (Revin Inc.) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, react, typescript \| 1mo ago
26.	Founding Engineer (Rovi Health) New York, New York, United States \| $170,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, react, typescript \| 1mo ago
27.	Senior Full Stack Engineer - Pay Tech (Lawrence Harvey) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, node.js, rust \| 1mo ago
28.	Software Engineer - AI (Brellium) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, typescript, sql \| 1mo ago
29.	Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Adaptive Security) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, java, typescript \| 1mo ago
30.	Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States \| $170,000 – $185,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, django, typescript \| 1mo ago
31.	AI Full Stack Engineer (ZENDA, LLC) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| ai, llm, automation \| 1mo ago
32.	Fullstack Engineer, International (Whatnot) New York, New York, United States \| $190,000 – $230,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, postgres, react \| 1mo ago
33.	Senior Full Stack Engineer / Ruby on Rails / Union Square, NYC (Motion Recruitment) New York, New York, United States \| $160,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| ruby on rails, full-stack development, database design \| 1mo ago
34.	Founding Engineer (Stilta) New York, NY, United States+1 \| $100,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, ai agents \| 1mo ago
35.	Senior Software Engineer (Confido) New York, New York, United States \| $210,000 – $280,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| backend engineering, systems design, data pipelines \| 1mo ago
36.	Staff ML / AI Engineer (Confido) New York, New York, United States \| $300,000 – $350,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| llm, nlp, ml systems design \| 1mo ago
37.	AI Agent Engineer (CollectWise) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| node.js, aws, sql \| 1mo ago
38.	Founding Product Engineer (VOYGR) New York, New York, United States+1 \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, fastapi, llm prompting \| 1mo ago
39.	Senior AI/ML Engineer (Tetrix) New York, New York, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, ai, machine learning \| 1mo ago
40.	Senior Software Engineer, AI (Bubble) New York, New York, United States \| $183,000 – $237,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, python, llm apis \| 1mo ago
41.	Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Systems) (Sweep360) New York, New York, United States \| Up to $240,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, go, typescript \| 1mo ago
42.	AI Engineer - Paige (Pave) New York, New York, United States \| $166,600 – $264,500/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| llms, agentic architectures, retrieval systems \| 1mo ago
43.	Backend Engineer (Channel3) New York, New York, United States \| $120,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, java, go \| 1mo ago
44.	Forward Deployed Engineer (Confido) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, rails, typescript \| 1mo ago
45.	AI Product Engineer (Epic Placements) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| aws, terraform, docker \| 1mo ago
46.	ML Developer Experience Engineer (Adaptive ML) New York, New York, United States+2 \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, mlops, reinforcement learning \| 1mo ago
47.	Forward Deployed Engineer Lead (Reflection AI) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, docker \| 1mo ago
48.	Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier AI Lab (Skyrocket Ventures) New York, New York, United States \| Up to $250,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, ai, backend engineering \| 4w ago
49.	Staff Software Engineer (Confido) New York, New York, United States \| $280,000 – $330,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| systems design, architecture, production systems \| 1mo ago
50.	Founding Engineering Lead (Meeno) New York, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| backend, mobile, web \| 1mo ago

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Frequently asked questions

What does a startup engineer in new york earn?: NYC base salaries track close to SF for senior builder roles, and the city has a heavier mix of fintech, healthtech, and enterprise-AI startups than the Bay. The typical band for a startup engineer runs $120k–$200k base + early-stage equity.
Are startup engineer jobs in new york remote-friendly?: 2 of the current 56 listings (4%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in New York.
What companies hire startup engineer jobs in new york?: 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 startup engineer and a regular startup 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.