Founding Product Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a small AI team 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 their research needs into reliable software. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and improve coding agents that create custom data pipelines, scrapers, and dashboards for customers. - Manage remote development environments and infrastructure for customer deployments. - Work with customers to understand research goals and deliver tailored solutions. - Take features from design and scoping through implementation and delivery. - Develop agent skills, tool libraries, and scaffolding to expand platform capabilities. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Two to four years of full-stack product engineering experience, with shipped work spanning frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure. - Strong applied engineering skills and hands-on experience building and deploying AI agent systems, including agent loops, tools, sandboxes, or evaluations. - Experience with Python, React, SQL, LLMs, agent frameworks, PostgreSQL, and DuckDB. - Low-level infrastructure experience, including development environments, containers, or deployment systems. - Data pipeline experience with web scraping, API integrations, and structured or unstructured data. - Customer-facing engineering experience translating requirements into shipped software; finance, investing, or financial data product experience is useful. - A bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM field, with strong fundamentals and evidence of engineering craft through shipped products, projects, open-source work, or writing. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $165,000 to $210,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.