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Founding Engineer

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Founding Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (Union Square area)

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: On-site

About the Role

Our client, is an applied AI research lab building high-fidelity agent environments and tooling with the bold thesis of becoming the single global workforce supplier of AI employees for the entire global economy. They are currently focused on conquering the frontiers of planning, memory, and "always-on-behavior" for their agents.

As a Founding Engineer, you will have a high-agency role, working directly with the CEO and founding team. Your contributions will go beyond just code, actively shaping the product, culture, and architecture. You must be prepared to ship fast, experiment, and iterate without heavy process.

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Staff Data Scientist

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Location: San Francisco, CA

Employment Type: Full-time

On-site: 5 days a week in-office

About the Role

Our client, a high-growth AI company building advanced conversational AI agents for enterprises (with over $231 million in funding and clients like Duolingo and Notion), is seeking a Staff Data Scientist. This role demands deep technical rigor to analyze, test, and apply data across the business.

You'll blend advanced analytical expertise with product acumen to influence strategic decisions at the highest levels, being the primary driver of the experimentation culture.

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Full-Stack Software Engineer

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Location: San Francisco, CA (Mission District)

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: On-site 5 days per week

About the Role

Our client, Automat, Inc., is a rapidly scaling enterprise AI company with $20 million in funding, focused on redefining Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). Their mission is to make teaching AI agents to build automations as easy as showing a colleague the desired workflow.

They are seeking a product-minded Full-Stack Software Engineer to join their small, early-stage team. This is a high-impact role where your contributions will go beyond code, actively shaping the technical direction and culture. You will be responsible for building the robust, foundational product that supports their complex, large-scale customer deployments.

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Forward Deployed Engineer

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Location: New York City

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: On-site in NYC office (regular travel, 30-50%, for client engagements)

About the Role

Our client, an AI startup founded by engineers from institutions like Palantir and Citadel, is building the first AI-augmented deep research platform for the financial services industry. They recently raised $7.25 million from backers including founders of OpenAI and DBT.

As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, you will be the technical architect for their most strategic client relationships at top financial firms. This role embodies the principle of "Forward-Deployed with Product DNA," meaning you embed directly with clients to own their outcomes while simultaneously architecting platform features that serve the entire market. Success is measured by your ability to iterate, deploy, and co-develop competitive advantages in high-stakes research environments.

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Director of Engineering

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Director of Engineering

Location: New York, NY

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (NYC only)

About the Role

Our client, a global venture builder that empowers founders to launch and scale transformative healthcare companies, is seeking an ambitious, product-minded Director of Engineering. The client is deeply dedicated to launching AI-native healthcare ventures.

In this senior technical leadership role, you will be responsible for originating, leading, and delivering on critical 0-to-1 agentic development projects across the company. You'll act as a technologist-investor, redefining how AI startups are built in healthcare by leveraging the client's dense repository of healthtech venture knowledge.

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Software Engineer (Full-Stack / Backend Focus)

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Location: London (Paddington) Employment Type: Full-time On-site: 5 days/week in-person (Non-negotiable)

About the Role

Our client is building the universal financial intelligence layer for healthcare to solve the sector's chronic lack of financial clarity and efficiency. Their platform unifies fragmented clinical, financial, and transactional data using AI to instantly surface critical KPIs and insights. They are starting in dentistry with the aim of becoming the essential financial infrastructure for healthcare globally.

They are seeking a highly driven Software Engineer to work closely with the CTO, helping to design, build, and accelerate product capabilities. This role offers significant ownership, focusing on backend-heavy infrastructure and taking chunky problems from idea to a deployed, production-grade solution.

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Senior Software Engineer, Admin Platform (Backend Focus)

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Senior Software Engineer, Admin Platform (Backend Focus)

Location: Seattle, WA

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (4 days a week in-office: Monday–Thursday)

About the Role

Our client is a well-established company transforming modern workplaces for hybrid work, with their software platform redefining how companies manage visitors, desks, and deliveries in over 20,000 locations globally. Backed by top-tier VCs, their newest division, Workplace, is their fastest-growing revenue stream.

They are seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join the Admin Platform (AMP) team. This team builds enterprise-grade features (like SCIM sync, Custom Roles, and SSO) specifically targeting their largest customers (1000+ employees). This role offers the chance to make a tremendous impact by boosting revenue and solving key architectural challenges related to enterprise scale and performance.

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Senior Backend Engineer (New York)

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Location: New York, NY or London, UK

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (2-3 days in-office) or Remote (within +/- 3 hours of NYC/London)

About the Role

Our client, a company reinventing the B2B Accounts Receivable category, is in hypergrowth mode with $19 million in funding from investors like a16z and Salesforce. Their modern, AI-powered platform helps finance and revops teams scale their billing and quote-to-cash process for complex contracts.

They are seeking a Mid/Senior Product Engineer with strong backend skills to build world-class financial tools. You will have a hand in shaping the backend architecture, guiding product direction through cross-functional collaboration, and playing an integral role in building their early engineering culture.

What You'll Do

  • Build robust and scalable financial tools for fast-scaling technology companies.
  • Play a key role in shaping the overall backend architecture and technical roadmap.
  • Collaborate deeply with data, product, and design teams to create a world-class product experience and guide feature direction.
  • Drive engineering quality and contribute to a high-performance, autonomous culture.

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Member of Technical Staff - Model Engineer

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Location: San Francisco, CA

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: On-site (minimum 3 days per week)

About the Role

Our client, a venture-backed company aiming to revolutionize the networking industry by creating a vertically integrated infrastructure provider, is seeking a Model Engineer to join their founding core AI team. This is a high-impact role focused on transforming a market with hundreds of billions in revenue by applying cutting-edge machine learning to internet infrastructure.

You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of model development, from data to production deployment, and will directly collaborate with founders to define technical vision and team culture.

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Member of Technical Staff - Backend

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Location: San Francisco, CA (Union Square)

Employment Type: Full-time

On-site: 5 days a week in-office

About the Role

Our client, an AI company recently acquired by a major industry leader, builds a GenAI-native platform that automates tax document processing, serving top accounting firms and private wealth offices. Their technology achieves high accuracy by turning tens of thousands of pages of complex tax documents into structured data in minutes.

They are seeking an exceptional Member of Technical Staff (Backend) with a desire for outsized responsibility and impact. This engineer will be crucial in building the core systems that deploy their machine learning capabilities and driving architectural choices for their core services.

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