Founding Engineer Roles at top VC-backed Startups Hiring Right Now

AI Native Account Executive ($200,000 - $240,000 OTE + Equity)

Fireworks AI, Inc.

AI Native Account Executive at Fireworks AI, Inc. in San Mateo. Fireworks AI is a $4B Series C leader in generative AI infrastructure backed by Sequoia and Benchmark, developing the fastest LLM inference platform. With 3+ years of technical sales, you will drive adoption of the platform among ambitious startups like Cursor and Vercel and help Fireworks AI scale.

Founder-in-Residence (£4,166/mo + Equity)

Deepscienceventures.com

Founder in Residence at Deepscienceventures.com in London, tasked with building a high impact company to reinvent high voltage transmission construction. You will lead the development of modular, factory produced towers backed by a major transatlantic utility partner to slash CAPEX and assembly time. The role includes £250k in pre seed funding, a monthly fee, and a meaningful equity stake to.

Founding Tech Lead (+ Equity)

Founders Factory Ltd

Founders Factory Ltd seeks a Founding Tech Lead (+ Equity) in Bristol to build Tricorder, the OS for healthcare beyond the hospital. The role blends defense and health tech to create rugged infrastructure for remote, low connectivity environments. You will join as a co founder with significant equity, backed by a major European partner and pre seed investment.

Software Engineer ($195K – $400K + Equity)

Agentio

Software Engineer at Agentio in NYC builds AI native infrastructure that connects brands with creators. Agentio is a Forbes recognized Next Billion Dollar Startup backed by Benchmark and Forerunner transforming the $800B digital ad market. This in person, ground floor role includes equity as you tackle multimodal AI and marketplace challenges with a strong engineering team.

Founding Engineer ($130K - $170K + Equity)

Arzana

Founding Engineer position at Arzana in San Francisco, CA. You will build the first autonomous operating system for American manufacturing, developing multi step AI agent pipelines, VLMs, and RAG systems on a Python/Supabase/GCP stack. The role offers ownership with direct impact alongside the founders, and US citizenship is required for ITAR.

Generalist Engineer

Greptile

Join Greptile as a Generalist Engineer in San Francisco. Greptile is building AI powered code review, backed by Benchmark and YC. You will work with a small, experienced team to build agents that review large codebases at scale for customers like Stripe and Brex.

Founding Engineer

Forgepoint

Founding Engineer in New York at Forgepoint. Forgepoint is rebuilding the digital backbone of the $3 trillion American manufacturing sector with AI to automate back office tasks. This early stage role offers ownership and the chance to ship core AI features while visiting shop floors across the country.

Networking Engineer

Adamo

This is a Networking Engineer role at Adamo in San Francisco, CA. Adamo is building a teleoperation engine for frontier robotics to enable sub 40ms latency for real time control. The role offers the opportunity to help build the foundational networking infrastructure at a seed stage startup backed by F4 Fund.

Software Engineer

Thrad

Software Engineer at Thrad in San Francisco, CA. Thrad builds critical AI advertising infrastructure and serves millions of ads for major brands like Binance, Warner Music, and TripAdvisor. Join the founding team as a hybrid platform engineer and client facing problem solver to build monetization surfaces for LLMs and chatbots.