Founding Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a small, early-stage team building AI-powered research tools for professional investors, starting with healthcare. As a founding engineer, you will build the infrastructure and products that help AI agents turn diverse data sources into reliable, continuously updated industry models. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and ship features across frontend applications, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure. - Create data pipelines and internal tools that help analysts add sources and maintain sector coverage. - Improve agent-based parsing and extraction systems for greater capability and reliability. - Own projects end to end, including data inspection, quality assurance, instrumentation, production releases, and debugging. - Develop a company ontology and an earnings research product. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 2 years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems, with up to approximately 7 years of professional experience. - Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic AI systems or LLM-based applications in production, including recent work on AI projects. - Full-stack capability across Python backend development, FastAPI or an equivalent framework, data pipelines, and TypeScript and React. - Experience with ETL, data modeling, SQL, relational database design and optimization, and PostgreSQL or similar systems. - Experience with AWS, real-time data systems, observability, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems. - Strong ownership, sound judgment about when to use AI agents versus deterministic systems, and willingness to work across unfamiliar technologies. - Financial research, capital markets, investment banking, or broader financial services experience is helpful. Familiarity with modern data tools, edge infrastructure, or AI/ML tooling is also a plus. - Must be a U.S. citizen and able to work on-site in New York City. Full-time commitment required. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $156,000 to $182,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION On-site in New York City, New York, five days per week.