Founding Engineer

Required Skills & Experience

Some days you'll be deep in the backend, optimizing a Django query or building out a new API. Other days you'll be wiring up a React component, debugging a Node.js agent integration, or reviewing CI/CD pipeline configs. The stack is Python/Django, React/Type Script, and Node.js — you don't need to be an expert in all of it, but you should be comfortable moving between layers and picking up what you need.

You'll ship code most days. The team is small enough that you'll work between systems and frameworks and go where the work is.

Experience deploying into government or regulated environments (FedRAMP, IL-5) An active security clearance Military background Familiarity with AI/ML systems, LLM integrations, or agentic architectures

You'll be the founding engineer working directly with the CTO. Your job is to take an early-traction platform and make it production-grade — hardening infrastructure, shipping features end-to-end, and helping set the technical direction of the company.

This is a true founding engineer role. You'll have meaningful ownership in the business and outsized influence on what gets built and how.

Take our live v1 platform to production-grade — scale, harden, and ship with confidence Build the oversight platform that will be used by executive-level leaders in the Pentagon Integrate AI systems across the platform — agentic research pipelines, LLM-driven market intelligence, and orchestrated workflows. You'll get deep exposure to product ionizing AI systems and can go as far in this direction as you want to go Secure the platform for deployment into IL-5+ environments, working alongside our security partners to meet compliance requirements.

Comp: $160–205k + meaningful equity