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Founding Engineer
- Location
- New York, United States
- Work type
- On-site · Full-time
- Posted
- (14 hours ago)
About the role
About the Role
Join an early-stage AI company building software for commercial real estate. As the first dedicated engineering hire, you will work closely with the CTO and a small team to develop portfolio research and AI workflow systems used by institutional property owners.
What You'll Do
Build and own a portfolio research and chat experience for querying portfolio data, generating work products, and running multi-step analysis.
Design and ship AI workflows for real estate operations, including structured extraction, tool calling, and reliable multi-step pipelines.
Develop production systems for LLM evaluation, observability, context construction, structured outputs, error handling, and monitoring.
Work with clients and domain experts to identify automation opportunities and deliver features from initial idea through production.
Partner with the CTO to develop deep ownership of a platform area and respond directly to client needs.
What We're Looking For
One to three years of experience as a software engineer, founding engineer, or founding AI engineer, plus a four-year degree.
Strong backend engineering skills in Python, with experience building production software at platform scale; familiarity with TypeScript, React, and AWS.
Experience building LLM agents, tool-calling systems, multi-step AI workflows, and reliable agent architectures, including context management and nondeterminism.
Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation and experience designing relational data models for complex hierarchical data, such as documents, versions, entities, and relationships.
Background building B2B AI products, vertical software, or document-processing systems at scale, and owning features end to end in a high-stakes B2B environment.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $165,000 to $185,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in New York, New York, five days per week.