Staff Software Engineer

Founding Engineering LeadOnsite - New York City, NYBase $250k - $400k + Significant EquityFutureTech Recruitment is partnered with a $11M funded seed-stage enterprise AI startup backed by top-tier institutional investors. The company is building AI-powered analytics and workflow automation for enterprise GTM teams - combining LLMs with structured customer data to surface actionable insights and automate manual revenue operations work. Strong early commercial traction with customers ranging from fast-growth startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.They’re now hiring a Founding Engineering Lead - 75% hands-on IC, 25% technical leadership. You’ll ship product end-to-end, own architecture decisions alongside the CTO, and lead a small pod of 2-3 engineers. Explicitly above-market comp, significant equity, and a clear path to Head of Engineering / VP of Engineering as the company scales.ResponsibilitiesShip product enhancements end-to-end - moving the platform from early stage to scalable productOwn technical architecture decisions and re-architect existing systems alongside the CTOBuild custom AI agent-driven development workflows and harnesses to maximise engineering velocityLead a pod of 2-3 engineers - technical mentorship, sprint scoping, and eventually people managementShape the ML and product roadmap including longer-term plans around custom model training and agentic pipelinesRequirements5-12 years of full-stack engineering experience in Python, building data-heavy or applied AI productsFounding engineer, tech lead, or staff IC at a high-bar startup - Big Tech acceptable if core product ownership can be demonstratedShipped a product end-to-end with minimal oversightDeeply AI-native - builds with AI agents daily, custom dev workflows, multi-agent orchestration - not just default Copilot useStrong applied ML fundamentals - classical algorithms, validation design, informed opinions on LLMs and transformersFull-stack capable - React/Next.js frontend, Python/Node backend - with a stronger backend leanBased in or willing to relocate to New York City - fully onsiteTech StackPython, React, Next.js, Node.js, GCP, LLMs, Machine Learning, AI Agents, Applied ML, Transformers$11M raised, strong early commercial traction, Fortune 500 customers, and explicitly above-market comp. If you’re a deeply technical, AI-native engineer who wants founding-level ownership at a company tackling one of the largest untapped markets in enterprise software, we’d love to hear from you.