Founding Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: New York

Compensation: $156K – $182K

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI-powered financial research company focused on healthcare as a founding engineer. You will build the infrastructure, tools, and systems that help AI agents transform diverse data sources into reliable, continuously updated industry research.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship features across the frontend, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure.

• Create data pipelines and tools that help analysts add sources and maintain industry coverage efficiently.

• Improve AI agent parsing and extraction systems for greater capability and reliability.

• Own projects end to end, from data inspection and quality assurance through 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 approximately 7 years or fewer of professional experience.

• Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic AI systems or LLM applications in production, with recent AI project work.

• Full-stack capability, including Python backend development with FastAPI or an equivalent framework, TypeScript, and React.

• Experience with data pipelines, ETL, data modeling, SQL, and relational database design and optimization, such as PostgreSQL.

• Experience with AWS, production observability, distributed systems debugging, and real-time data or streaming systems.

• Strong ownership and sound judgment about when to use AI reasoning versus deterministic software.

• Financial research, capital markets, investment banking, or broader financial services experience is a plus, as is experience with modern data tools, edge computing, or AI/ML infrastructure.

• U.S. citizenship is required.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $156,000 to $182,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in New York, New York, five days per week. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.