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  • Own the technical foundation: build the first product version end-to-end, from architecture through shipping to real customers.
  • Partner directly with the founding CEO, talk with customers, and set technical direction and roadmap alongside leadership.
  • Establish engineering culture and tooling, working across every lane of the company including product, sales, and customer service.

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US

  • Define both the product and technical foundation as the first Founding Engineer, shaping engineering culture and product roadmap.
  • Own full-stack product development across frontend, backend, AI systems, and infrastructure to build AI-powered tutoring experiences.
  • Partner closely with the founder on product direction, architecture, hiring, and engineering culture to scale personalized education.

Athena is building the world's first AI tutor that teaches instead of waiting to be asked, combining frontier AI with thoughtful product design and learning science. We are an incubated company out of super{set}, a small team focused on personalized education and shipping fast.

$200,000–$350,000/yr
US

  • Lead 0→1 product initiatives from discovery through scale, partnering with customers and product leadership.
  • Design and implement full-stack product architectures and establish technical foundations for new products.
  • Translate ambiguous product problems into scalable solutions while balancing speed, quality, and sustainability.

This technology company builds critical infrastructure for high-volume, real-time business operations across multiple platforms. It is a fast-growing, YC-backed startup with a collaborative culture that encourages ownership and quick decision-making.

$200,000–$350,000/yr
US

  • Lead product engineering strategy for 0→1 initiatives.
  • Work directly with executive, product, engineering, and customer teams.
  • Define architectures and product development frameworks.

They build critical infrastructure for high-volume, real-time business operations. They are a fast-growing, collaborative company where engineers have meaningful influence on architecture and culture.

$200,000–$350,000/yr
US

  • Build new product capabilities from concept to production.
  • Work closely with Product and customers to identify high-value problems.
  • Own features end-to-end from architecture through deployment.

They build critical infrastructure that powers high-volume, real-time business operations across multiple systems and platforms. They are a fast-growing, collaborative team that values ownership and quick decision-making.

$162,800–$177,600/yr
North America

  • Work directly with customers to understand how consequential work gets done and turn rough problems into working AI-native products.
  • Build across frontend, backend, infrastructure, tools, memory, retrieval, evals, and observability, designing token-efficient agent loops.
  • Harden the last mile: handle permissions, missing information, forms, handoffs, retries, approvals, exceptions, and recovery to make agents dependable in real firms.

Rowan builds AI-powered systems that automate complex workflows for financial services firms, focusing on dependable execution rather than just generating answers. As a small, fast-moving team, they emphasize craftsmanship, customer proximity, and iterative building.

$225,000–$300,000/yr
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  • Own software architecture and delivery: design, deploy, and operate systems at scale.
  • Design and evolve AI systems including prompting, retrieval, evaluation infrastructure, and expert feedback loops.
  • Hire, manage, and grow the engineering team from 3 FTEs while staying on the frontier of AI and legal AI.

Inhouse is the #1 AI lawyer for small to midsize businesses, combining AI, their own law firm, and an expert feedback loop to deliver fast, compliant legal work. They grew revenue 1,500% last year and recently raised a $5M seed round from leading VCs.

$180,000–$205,000/yr
US

  • Own core platform functionality end-to-end, from design to delivery
  • Innovate on features the industry hasn't seen before — genuine 0→1 work
  • Collaborate with a small, senior team and coordinate with supporting engineers

They build an AI-first critical event management platform that monitors 911 radio and social media to deliver verified threat alerts in seconds. Founded in 2023 by public-safety veterans, this seed-stage company is backed by top-tier investors and has a small, senior core team.

Global

  • Own the agent layer orchestrating specialist agents for investor research, outreach, and conversations.
  • Build and scale the matching engine using embeddings, ranking, and feedback loops.
  • Ship production code end to end with Python, Postgres, and AI tooling.

Paires is a fundraising platform that pairs founders with investors using AI agents for outreach and relationship management. It is a small, senior, flat team that is profitable and self-funded.

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  • Lead and grow multiple engineering teams across Core Experience, fostering a high-performance culture.
  • Drive technical strategy and product execution, partnering with Product and Design leadership.
  • Shape AI-native product development, supporting teams building AI-powered experiences.

n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We've grown to a diverse team of over 260 across Europe and the US, backed by top investors and a community of 650,000+ active developers.

US

  • Design, build, and ship customer-facing product features end-to-end.
  • Own architecture across backend systems, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop AI-powered workflows leveraging modern LLM technologies.

This seed-stage healthcare technology startup is building AI-powered infrastructure to modernize care coordination and benefit administration for vulnerable populations. The founding team is creating a culture centered around ownership, collaboration, and craftsmanship.