Founding Engineer – AI Consumer Brands

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.

• 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

• At least 3 years as a backend or full-stack engineer, ideally on data pipelines or extraction systems
• Type Script 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)

• 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

• $150k–$250k base + 0.5–2% equity
• A founding seat: real ownership of architecture, product and culture
• Relocation to New York supported

• 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