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 6 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company building a platform for commercial real estate portfolio research and operations. As the first dedicated engineering hire, you will work closely with the CTO and domain experts to turn client needs into production software with substantial ownership.

What You'll Do

  • Build and own a portfolio research and chat interface for querying enterprise data, generating work products, and conducting analysis.
  • Design and ship reliable agentic workflows, including structured extraction, tool calling, and 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 deliver features from discovery through production.
  • Partner with the CTO to develop deep platform expertise and take independent ownership of your area.

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, plus familiarity with TypeScript, React, and AWS.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM agents, tool-calling systems, and multi-step AI workflows, including managing nondeterminism and context.
  • Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation and experience designing relational data models for complex, hierarchical information.
  • Experience building B2B AI products or document-processing systems, and shipping production software in a high-stakes B2B environment.
  • Ability to own platform features end-to-end, communicate proactively, and work effectively with limited specifications.

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 125 open in Client Roles. 125 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 125), LLM (46 of 125), TypeScript (41 of 125), React (37 of 125), Machine Learning (34 of 125), AWS (32 of 125), JavaScript (22 of 125)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 9 times since 25 October 2026: a posting for this role in New York was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

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

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