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Founding AI Engineer

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Founding AI Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (In-person)

Compensation: $150K – $200K • 0.10% – 0.25% Equity

We believe that the way engineering output is measured today is fundamentally broken. Our mission is to build the definitive platform for understanding and improving how engineering teams work. By leveraging modern AI, we provide teams with a far more accurate and actionable view of productivity, impact, and collaboration—moving beyond vanity metrics and surveillance toward better engineering outcomes.

As our Founding AI Engineer, you will be responsible for building the intelligence that understands the nuances of software engineering work. You aren't just implementing models; you are building the processes and standards that will define our technical foundation. You will work directly with our CTO (MIT alum, founding engineer background) and CEO (experienced sales leader) in a high-intensity, $4.2M seed-funded environment.

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Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

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Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

Location: San Francisco, CA (In-person)

On-site | Full-time

Compensation: $150K – $225K • 0.05% – 0.25% Equity

Visa: Will Sponsor

Our client is a high-growth, YC-funded startup in San Francisco building a definitive platform to redefine how engineering teams understand and improve their work. By leveraging modern AI, the organization provides an accurate and actionable view of productivity, impact, and collaboration, moving beyond traditional vanity metrics.

Currently trusted by over 150 customers and experiencing consistent double-digit month-over-month revenue growth, the company has secured a $4.2M seed round from premier venture capital firms. Our client is seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineering Manager to join the core team. This individual will serve as a bridge between the customer and the product, ensuring that users derive maximum value from the platform while directly influencing the company's roadmap and strategy.

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Applied AI Engineer

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Applied AI Engineer

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid - 3 days in-office)

Compensation: $200k - $250k base + Equity

Start Date: Q1 2026

We are hiring on behalf of our client who is looking for an exceptional Applied AI Engineer to join their team in Austin. They are a well-funded ($40M) startup backed by top-tier investors like Paradigm and Electric Capital. They are currently rebuilding the infrastructure of the global financial system—bringing it fully on-chain to make it faster and safer. Your mission is to level up their entire organization’s impact by embedding AI deeply into how they engineer and operate. You will stay at the absolute frontier of AI development, ensuring their team evolves from "using AI" to "effectively managing a team of AI agents" with consistent quality and guardrails.

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Engineering Manager - Incubations

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Engineering Manager (Incubations)

Location: New York (Office)

Comepensation: Competitive

We are an industry-leading R&D lab building high-performance, open-source technology for the first parallelized EVM Layer 1 blockchain. Our mission is to scale decentralized infrastructure to handle Web2-level volume, onboarding the next billion users into a vibrant ecosystem of digital assets.

As the Engineering Manager for Incubations, you will lead a specialized team at the forefront of blockchain innovation. You won't just be managing; you will be collaborating directly with ecosystem partners to develop cutting-edge dApps across diverse domains—including Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Gaming, DePin, and AI. This is a "zero-to-one" leadership role designed for someone who thrives in fast-paced, community-first environments and wants to push the absolute boundaries of decentralized technology.

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Associate GC

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Associate General Counsel

Location: New York (Office)

Compensation: Competitive

We are an elite team of builders moving at the speed of the future. As a high-growth software development firm and a primary contributor to one of the largest global crypto social networks, we are redefining the digital landscape.

We are seeking a proactive, detail-oriented Associate General Counsel to join our legal team. Reporting directly to the General Counsel, you will play a critical role in supporting our corporate, intellectual property, employment, and litigation functions. This is a high-impact position where you will provide internal legal guidance on strategic decision-making and ensure the operational integrity of a fast-moving, global organization.

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Social Media & Content Lead

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Social Media & Content Lead (DeFi)

Location: New York (Office)

On-site | Full time

Compensation: $100K - $140K

We are hiring on behalf of our client, the leading accelerator for crypto founders, they have backed over 300 startups since 2020—including industry leaders like Rain, Synthetix, and Pendle—now collectively valued at over $10B. They are looking for a Content & Social Media Lead to take over their digital presence and content engine with one primary mission: driving high-quality applications from the next generation of visionary founders.

Reporting directly to the co-founder, you will be the voice of the organization. You won't just be "posting"; you’ll be turning raw material—founder wins, cohort data, and community memes—into a high-growth distribution machine.

In this role, you will move fast, experiment often, and own the narrative. You are responsible for:

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AI Data Engineer

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Senior AI Data Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Location: USA / Europe / Israel - with a 5hour overlap with EST hours

Compensation: $130K - $150K

We are hiring on behalf of our client who build the technology that powers safer, more accessible financial markets. Our risk management systems, oracles, and AI models currently secure over $200 billion in assets across the world's largest decentralized protocols, having processed more than $5 trillion in transaction volume. They recently launched a pioneering Financial Intelligence Platform that transforms complex market data into actionable insights, bringing institutional-grade intelligence to every participant in the ecosystem.

The Role: They are looking for a Senior AI Data Engineer to design and build the agentic systems powering their intelligence platform. You will work at the intersection of LLMs, financial data, and production infrastructure, creating intelligent agents that reason, plan, and execute across complex financial workflows.

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Staff Mobile Engineer

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Staff Mobile Engineer

Remote | Full-Time | Engineering

Compensation: $180K - $250K

We are hiring on behalf of our client, the largest ecosystem builder on a leading decentralized perpetual exchange, currently building the next generation of DeFi trading. Their mission is to democratize access to global financial markets—including crypto, equities, and commodities—by leveraging decentralized technology. To date, their platform has processed $65B+ in cumulative trading volume, generated eight figures in revenue, and supports over 400,000 registered traders.

They are a small, elite team of individual contributors who value autonomy, ownership, and rapid execution. They are looking for a Staff Mobile Engineer who views React Native as a craft. You will sit at the intersection of engineering, design, and product, turning raw speed into a premium mobile experience that feels intentional and indistinguishable from a native app.

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Founding New Business Lead

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New Business Lead (Founding GTM Team)

Location: New York City

On-site | Full time

Compensation: $100K - $120K

Our client is a venture-backed, high-growth startup reinventing the global $600B+ staffing industry through a fundamentally redesigned technical interviewing platform. By enabling recruiting firms to combat fraud and identify elite talent with high confidence, our client has quickly become a critical partner for dozens of enterprise staffing organizations, including the largest firm in the world.

Having surpassed seven figures in revenue with a talent-dense team of seven from institutions such as Stanford, Penn, and Waterloo, our client is now looking for a Founding New Business Lead. This is a foundational Go-To-Market role designed for a relentless, high-energy sales professional who wants to move beyond the traditional "cog-in-the-machine" SDR model. The successful candidate will own the outbound motion, influence the GTM playbook, and join a company well-capitalized by a $3.1M seed round from premier investors like BoxGroup, GSV Ventures, and angels from OpenAI and SpaceX.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure)

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Enterprise Platform)

Location: US - Open to Europe if happy to overlap with EST

Remote | Full-time

Compensation: $150K - $200K

Our client is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure) to architect and scale a robust infrastructure foundation for a high-growth distributed systems platform. This position is critical for ensuring that the platform operates as a secure, scalable, and production-ready environment capable of supporting complex enterprise use cases and high reliability standards.

The successful candidate will take a lead role in designing infrastructure from first principles, bridging the gap between product requirements and technical execution. This is a high-impact opportunity for a seasoned engineer to build greenfield Azure environments and establish operational excellence across a global ecosystem.

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