Founding Lead Engineer
Location: Remote (USA)
Salary: Up to $220,000 + Equity
Industry: AI / M&A
Who You’ll Join
Join an early-stage AI company building the platform that redefines how diligence and M&A workflows are done. The founder, a former partner from a leading strategy firm, left the industry to fix what he saw firsthand: outdated, manual, and analyst-heavy processes slowing down private equity and advisory teams. The platform already exists and serves as a unified workspace for market research, document analysis, analytics, and insights generation across large data sets.
This is not an idea-stage concept. The product is live, around 85% reliable, and being prepared for commercialization. You’ll work directly with the founder to stabilize, productionize, and scale an AI-native platform trusted by middle-market private equity firms and professional services teams who want to evaluate businesses faster and with more confidence.
What You’ll Do
- Lead stabilization, refinement, and reliability improvements across the platform.
- Build flexible, scalable infrastructure for integrated AI research and analysis workflows.
- Strengthen data permissioning, collaboration, and security foundations to prepare for enterprise rollout.
- Identify performance bottlenecks, drive observability, and chart a path toward SOC 2 readiness.
- Refactor partially built modules such as a dataset querying feature and turn them into commercial use cases.
- Define early engineering standards, development processes, and best practices for a future team.
- Collaborate closely with the founder to set technical direction and product priorities.
Who You Are
- Senior or Staff-level engineer with strong full stack or backend experience.
- Experienced in startup or AI product environments where structure and clarity are still being built.
- Great communicator who can translate between technical context and business goals.
- Ownership-driven, pragmatic, and comfortable building in ambiguity.
- Product-minded engineer who enjoys AI-assisted development and working close to end users.
- Bonus: experience with information retrieval, data infrastructure, or enterprise AI workflows.
Tech Stack
React, Next.js, Python, AWS, Terraform, vector databases, and knowledge graph infrastructure.
Why You’ll Thrive
- Build on a real foundation: the platform already exists and is being used in diligence settings.
- Shape the architecture and technical culture as the first engineering hire.
- Partner directly with a domain expert founder who has deep PE and consulting relationships.
- Solve a high-value, visible problem that sits at the intersection of AI, data analysis, and investment workflows.
- Potential to evolve into Head of Engineering or CTO as the company scales.
- Remote flexibility with strong agency and clarity of ownership.
- Backed by early revenue from consulting and a $2–2.5M seed raise now in motion.
This role is open to US citizens and Green Card holders only.
