Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer | Early-Stage AI StartupAI Futures has been exclusively retained to hire a Founding Engineer for an ambitious, well-funded AI startup at the earliest stages of building its product and technical team.This is a genuine 0→1 opportunity for an entrepreneurial engineer who wants to work directly with the founders, build the core product from scratch and have meaningful influence over the technology, product and company as it scales.Remuneration: Competitive salary + meaningful equityThe RoleBuild the company's core product from 0→1Own features end-to-end from initial idea through architecture, implementation and productionBuild and scale AI-native applications and intelligent workflowsMake foundational decisions around architecture, infrastructure and engineering standardsRapidly prototype, ship and iterate based on real customer feedbackWork directly with the founders on product and technical strategyOperate across backend, AI and product engineering where requiredHelp establish the engineering culture and technical foundationsPlay a key role in building the wider engineering team as the company scalesThe CandidateStrong Software Engineering / AI Engineering backgroundProven experience building and shipping production softwareStrong 0→1 builder mindset with evidence of taking products from idea to productionExperience with LLMs, Generative AI or Agentic AI highly desirableStrong backend engineering and system architecture fundamentalsProduct-minded and commercially aware, not purely focused on technical implementationComfortable making decisions and shipping quickly without an established playbookHigh ownership, entrepreneurial and comfortable with ambiguityStartup, founding engineer, pre-seed or seed-stage experience highly desirableMotivated by the opportunity to join early, take genuine responsibility and participate in the upsideApply for a confidential discussion.AI Futures Ltd | Filling the AI Skills Gap®