Founding Product Engineer
- Salary
- $165,000 - $210,000 annually
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
- Visa
- Sponsors visas
Open. First seen 4 November 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Join a small, fast-moving AI company building coding agents for hedge funds. As the first engineering hire, you will help mature the core product and work directly with customers to turn research needs into reliable software.
What You'll Do
- Build and improve coding agents that create custom data pipelines, web scrapers, and dashboards for customers.
- Manage remote development environments and infrastructure for customer deployments.
- Work with customers to understand research goals and deliver tailored software solutions.
- Take features from design and scoping through implementation and delivery.
- Develop agent skills, tool libraries, and scaffolding to expand the platform's capabilities.
What We're Looking For
- Two to four years of full-stack product engineering experience, with work shipped end to end across frontend, backend, and data.
- Experience delivering applied product engineering, including LLM-powered applications or coding agents.
- Proficiency with Python, React, SQL, PostgreSQL, DuckDB, LLMs, and agent frameworks.
- Experience building data pipelines involving web scraping, API integrations, and ETL for structured or unstructured sources.
- Customer-facing engineering experience, including translating requirements into shipped products.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM field, with strong technical fundamentals.
- Finance, investing, or financial data product experience is valuable.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $165,000 to $210,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
DuckDB · ETL · SQL
Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 124 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 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 7 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (63 of 125), LLM (48 of 125), TypeScript (44 of 125), React (39 of 125), Machine Learning (31 of 125), JavaScript (27 of 125), AWS (26 of 125)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Solutions Engineer posted Nov 4
- Principal Software Engineer, Perception posted Nov 4
- Technical Product Manager posted Nov 4
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 4
- Member of Technical Staff, Senior posted Nov 4
- Research Engineer, Evals posted Nov 4
- Member of Technical Staff, ML Systems posted Nov 4
- Software Engineer, C++ Systems posted Nov 4
- Founding Senior Engineer posted Nov 4
- Frontend Engineer posted Nov 4
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 4
- Founding AI Engineer posted Nov 4
- Robotics Software Engineer posted Nov 4
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 4
- Founding ML Research Engineer posted Nov 4
- Member of Technical Staff, Compiler posted Nov 4
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 3
- AI Scheduler posted Nov 3
- Product Manager, Supply Chain posted Nov 3
- Product Engineer, Mid-Senior posted Nov 3
- Product Lead posted Nov 3
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 3
- Lead Product Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Operate posted Nov 3
- Product Manager, Product Growth posted Nov 3
- Software Engineer, iOS posted Nov 3
- Electrical & Computer Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Backend Software Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding AI Agent Engineer posted Nov 3
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Nov 3
- Founding Product Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Product Manager posted Nov 3
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Agent Platform posted Nov 3
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Nov 3
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Tactical Edge posted Nov 3
- Software Engineer, RL Environments posted Nov 3
- Founding Backend & Infrastructure Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Reinforcement Learning Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Quantitative Developer posted Nov 3
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Engineering Manager posted Nov 3
- Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Engineer, Forward Deployed posted Nov 3
- Product Engineer posted Nov 3
- Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Data & Machine Learning Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 3
- AI-Native Electrical Engineer posted Nov 3
- Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 3
- Product Engineer posted Nov 3
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Nov 3
- Full-Stack Engineer, Agent Evaluation & Reliability posted Nov 3
- Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI posted Nov 3
- Senior Control Electronics Engineer posted Nov 3
- Lead Software Engineer, Platform posted Nov 3
- Fullstack Software Engineer posted Nov 3
- Founding Product Designer posted Nov 3
- Engineering Lead posted Nov 2
- Product Manager, AI Platform posted Nov 2
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems posted Nov 2
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Nov 2
- Engineering Manager, Agents posted Nov 2
- Founding Fullstack Engineer posted Nov 2
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Nov 2
- Founding Product Designer posted Nov 2
- Founding PLM Solutions Engineer posted Nov 2
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Design Engineer posted Nov 2
- Research Crawling Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer, AI Agents posted Nov 2
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Power Electronics Engineer posted Nov 2
- Software Engineer, Marketplace posted Nov 2
- Engineering Manager posted Nov 2
- Senior AI/ML Engineer posted Nov 2
- Mechanical Engineer posted Nov 2
- Computer Vision ML / Research Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Mid/Senior Full Stack AI Engineer posted Nov 2
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Nov 2
- Director of Engineering posted Nov 2
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Backend Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Staff Product Manager posted Nov 2
- Founding Product Designer posted Nov 2
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied Researcher posted Nov 2
- Senior Security Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Digital Native and Mid-Market posted Nov 2
- Product Engineer posted Nov 2
- Senior Software Engineer posted Nov 2
- Engineering Manager posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Technical Recruiter posted Nov 1
- Product Manager, AI Education posted Nov 1
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Nov 1
- Full Stack Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Brand & Identity / Presentation Designer posted Nov 1
- Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Nov 1
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 1
- Full-Stack Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior ML / AI Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer posted Nov 1
- Director of Engineering posted Nov 1
- GTM Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Nov 1
- Senior / Staff Product Engineer posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Senior Analog/Mixed Signal Engineer posted Nov 1
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Nov 1
- Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core) posted Nov 1
- Founding Engineer posted Nov 1
- Member of Technical Staff posted Nov 1
- Product Engineer, Scrape posted Nov 1
- Backend Infrastructure Engineer, Anti-Bot posted Nov 1
- Principal Analog/Mixed-Signal Engineer posted Oct 31
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Platform posted Oct 31
- Robotics Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 31
- Staff Product Manager, AI posted Oct 31
From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted 7 times since 25 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 4 November 2026 – open (this posting)
- 3 November 2026 – open
- 3 November 2026 – closed 4 November 2026
- 2 November 2026 – closed 3 November 2026
- 31 October 2026 – closed 2 November 2026
- 31 October 2026 – closed 3 November 2026
- 30 October 2026 – closed 31 October 2026
- 30 October 2026 – closed 3 November 2026
- 29 October 2026 – closed 30 October 2026
- 29 October 2026 – closed 30 October 2026
Salary context
17 other open postings titled Founding Product Engineer state a salary: median USD 175,000 to USD 250,000 a year.
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