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Founding Engineer

Structured AI

New York, NYFull-time$120–250K/yrSeen 2mo agoStill listed 2 days ago

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Compensation
$120–250K/yr
Location
New York, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Founding Engineer will join a YC‑backed AI startup, collaborating with engineers and architects to build high‑volume drawing processing services, AI/ML pipelines, and intuitive user interfaces while shaping product direction and engineering culture.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

PythonTypeScriptComputer VisionTypeScript/JavaScriptAzureAWSGCPMachine Learning PipelinesDebuggingProblem‑SolvingClear CommunicationAECCAD/BIMCompliance SystemsRule Engines

Qualifications

3+ Years Software Experience

Full job description

Why Join

  • Rare combo: frontier AI + a giant industry that actually needs help
  • Founders are Oxford grads, ex-finance rebels, and a former Minecraft-coding gremlin
  • Vibes: smart, ambitious, funny, no ego, deeply care about great work
  • YC-backed, well-funded, and already generating revenue
  • Huge ownership and extremely fast career progression

The Role What You'll Do

  • Work directly with engineers and architects to understand their workflows and iterate on solutions in real-time
  • Build backend services for high-volume drawing processing
  • Develop AI/ML pipelines for automated QA/QC
  • Create intuitive UIs for engineers and architects
  • Optimize performance for massive PDFs and complex images
  • Shape architecture, product direction, and engineering culture

What We're Looking For

  • 3+ years software experience, strong in Python or TypeScript/JavaScript
  • You’re a builder who enjoys talking to humans, gather feedback on the front lines, and translate user needs into code
  • Cloud experience (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • Familiar with ML/data pipelines
  • Strong debugging + problem-solving
  • Clear communicator and solid teammate

Nice to Have

  • AEC experience (design, construction, CAD/BIM)
  • Computer vision or document analysis background
  • Experience with compliance systems or rule engines

Benefits Awesome Salary Awesome Equity Awesome Team Awesome Product

How this job compares

Set against the 3,255 open Backend Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$120–250K/yr
  • New York median$170–230K/yr372 salary ranges
  • US median$149–224K/yr2,601 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $185K, is 8% below the New York median midpoint ($201K) — in the middle half of Backend Engineer salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 481 open Backend Engineer jobs in New York and 3,255 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Backend Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,641 postings).
Education
899 of the 3,255 open Backend Engineer jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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