Want to be one of the first engineers building how the offline economy makes decisions?
A seed-stage AI company in New York brings AI to the businesses behind the products on store shelves: consumer goods brands that sell through physical and online retailers. They're building the decision layer that finance, sales and operations teams at those brands run on. The founding team combines olympiad-level math and science backgrounds with experience building at well-known tech and finance companies, and is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors and operators.
They're hiring 3 founding engineers.
What you'll own
Core infrastructure from the ground up, for both single-tenant and multi-tenant deployments
Pulling structured data out of messy sources, at terabyte scale
The building blocks for multi-step agents with long memory, plus the rules for what data they can access
Putting production agents live at large enterprise customers
How the early team works together, from day one
What you bring
At least 3 years as a backend or full-stack engineer, ideally on data pipelines or extraction systems
TypeScript in production, plus a backend language such as Python, Go, Java or Rust
You design and ship technical solutions across the stack for products customers actually use
You build AI-first: Claude Code (or similar) is part of your daily setup, including your own workflows and MCPs
Experience with payments or agent systems, and good instincts when something breaks in production
Real ownership at an early-stage startup (Series B or earlier)
Bonus points
You were a founding or very early engineer and owned things end to end
Palantir-style forward deployed experience in traditional industries
Pipelines you built feed straight into a product customers use
A fast rise to senior or staff scope
What's in it for you
$150k–$250k base + 0.5–2% equity
A founding seat: real ownership of architecture, product and culture
Relocation to New York supported
Good to know
Full-time, in the New York office five days a week, with long days (about 8 to 8)
US work authorization without visa sponsorship is required
Process: two founder conversations technical session on something you built recently, including a quick design exercise two-day work trial on site in New York references offer
Does this sound like you? Apply now. If you're a match, we'll be in touch within 3 working days.