True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding Engineer

New York
Salary
$165,000 - $185,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · New York
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 29 October 2026.

Apply on the company's site →

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 AI-powered portfolio research and operational workflows for institutional real estate owners.

What You'll Do

  • Build and own a portfolio research and chat interface for querying data, generating work products, and running multi-step analyses.
  • Design and ship agentic workflows, including structured extraction, tool calling, and reliable multi-step AI pipelines.
  • Develop production infrastructure for LLM systems, including evaluations, observability, context construction, structured outputs, and failure handling.
  • Work with clients and domain experts to identify automation opportunities and turn ideas into production features.
  • Partner with the CTO to develop deep ownership of a platform area and deliver features end to end.

What We're Looking For

  • One to three years of experience as a software engineer, founding engineer, or founding AI engineer, with a four-year degree.
  • Strong backend engineering skills in Python, along with experience using TypeScript, React, and AWS.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM agents, tool-calling systems, multi-step AI workflows, and reliable architectures that address nondeterminism and context management.
  • Experience designing relational data models for complex, hierarchical data, and a solid understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
  • Background building B2B AI products or document-processing systems at scale, and shipping production software in high-stakes B2B environments.
  • Ability to own platform features end to end, work with limited specifications, and communicate proactively.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $165,000 to $185,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in New York, New York.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

RAG

Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 126 open postings.

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

Common in software engineering postings at any company.

Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.

The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 123 open in Client Roles. 123 were posted in the last 30 days, including 5 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (70 of 123), TypeScript (46 of 123), LLM (44 of 123), React (37 of 123), Machine Learning (35 of 123), AWS (26 of 123), JavaScript (24 of 123)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted 2 times since 25 October 2026: a posting for this role in New York was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

49 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 156,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

Similar jobs

More jobs like this

SKILLSPython 46,271AWS 26,411LLM 18,622TypeScript 13,083
PLACESNew York 6,098United States 72,511
COMPANYJobs at True Talent Solutions Partners 123

Is this your posting? Email info@careerholo.com to have it removed.