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Founding ML Engineer

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Founding ML Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (In-person)

Compensation: $150K – $200K • 0.20% – 1.00% Equity

Our client is a high-growth, YC-backed startup based in San Francisco seeking a Founding ML Engineer to help redefine how engineering output is measured and optimised. This organisation is building a definitive platform that leverages modern AI to provide engineering teams with an accurate, actionable view of productivity, impact, and collaboration.

The company has secured a $4.2M seed round from top-tier investors and has demonstrated consistent double-digit month-over-month revenue growth. This role offers a rare opportunity to join at the ground floor and develop the machine learning systems that will shape how millions of engineers and leaders understand their work. The Founding ML Engineer will work directly with a CTO (MIT alum and former founding engineer) and a CEO with a proven track record of scaling startups from $0 to $30M in ARR.

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Founding GTM Engineer

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Founding GTM Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (In-person)

Compensation: $100K – $140K • 0.01% – 0.10% Equity

We are building the premier software platform designed to help elite engineering teams move faster. Trusted by over 150+ high-growth customers and backed by a $4.2M seed round from top-tier investors (including Y Combinator), we have maintained double-digit month-over-month growth since mid-2025.

As our Founding GTM (Go-To-Market) Engineer, you will be the bridge between our technical product and our customers. This is a rare "ground floor" opportunity to work directly with our CEO (who scaled multiple teams from $0–$30M ARR) and our CTO (formerly a founding engineer at a successful startup). You aren't just selling; you are shaping how millions of engineers and leaders understand their work.

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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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