Founding Product Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (In-person)

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

On-site | Full-time

Our client is a high-growth, YC-backed startup based in San Francisco that is developing the definitive platform for understanding and improving engineering team dynamics. By leveraging modern AI, the organization provides an accurate and actionable view of productivity, impact, and collaboration—moving beyond traditional vanity metrics to focus on better engineering outcomes.

Having secured a $4.2M seed round from top-tier investors, our client has delivered consistent double-digit month-over-month revenue growth and is now looking to expand the core team. As a Founding Product Engineer, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in defining both the product direction and the technical foundation of the company. This is a rare opportunity to join at the ground floor and influence how millions of engineers and leaders understand their work.

Key Responsibilities

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.

What you’ll do:

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.

What You Will Do:

We are seeking a seasoned Project Delivery Director to take a lead role on the large scale Generation III+ Nuclear New Build Program.

Role Purpose

The Delivery Director is accountable for leading the execution on the Owner side of the Engineering Services phase for a large-scale nuclear new build program. The role provides senior leadership through the pre-FID phase, ensuring that all technical, commercial, licensing, schedule, and cost deliverables required to support FID approval and the transition to the Execution phase are developed at the appropriate maturity.

This position requires proven executive-level experience in establishing delivery structures for multi-billion-dollar energy projects, managing multi-party consortia, and driving robust EPC contracting readiness.

Key Accountabilities

Program Delivery Leadership

• Provide overall leadership and accountability for program execution
• Establish and manage an integrated delivery organization across Owner and Contractor
• Ensure delivery governance, performance monitoring, and corrective actions are implemented across all workstreams.

EPC Scope and Contracting Readiness

The Finance Director will lead the financial strategy required to achieve Final Investment Decision (FID) and secure long-term financing for a multi-billion dollar nuclear new-build project.

The role is accountable for coordinating the total cost estimate, ensuring cost credibility at AACE Class 2/3 level, structuring the financing plan (ECA-backed and sovereign-supported), and establishing robust governance of project financial risk, contingency, and exposure management. This position ensures that cost, risk, schedule, and financing are fully integrated into a lender-grade and regulator-credible investment case.

Key Responsibilities

1. Secure Project Financing and Funding Strategy

• Lead the definition and execution of the financing roadmap up to FID
• Structure and coordinate funding solutions including Export Credit Agency (ECA) backed financing, sovereign guarantees, state support mechanisms, and commercial debt.
• Support negotiations with international ECAs, commercial lenders, financial institutions, and government stakeholders.

2. Financial Model Ownership (Bankability and LCOE Alignment)

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.

What you’ll do:

Staff Mobile Engineer (React Native)

Location: Fully remote in Europe or India

Compensation: $60K - $70K

We are a fast-scaling financial technology startup operating at the intersection of Prediction Markets, AI, and Blockchain.

Our platform is currently processing $200M in annualized volume and experiencing explosive growth of 100% week-over-week. We are backed by elite institutional investors, including a $500M AUM digital asset fund and a premier AI/Crypto accelerator with a sub-1% acceptance rate. We are looking for a world-class Staff Mobile Engineer to own our iOS experience and build a high-stakes trading environment where performance is the primary product feature.

As a Staff Mobile Engineer, you will be the architectural lead and primary owner of our iOS trading experience. This is a product-critical role where your code sits directly between our users and live, real-money markets. You will work in a high-bandwidth environment alongside the CEO, COO, and founding engineering team to ship a mobile experience that rivals the best in TradFi.

Key Responsibilities:

Smart Contract Engineer (EVM + Rust)

Location: European timezones

Compensation: Up to £65 per hour

We are looking for a highly skilled Smart Contract Engineer with deep expertise in both Solidity (EVM) and Rust to join our elite engineering team at MLabs. In this role, you will be subcontracted to work directly with one of our premier clients—leading innovators in the DeFi space—building next-generation financial infrastructure on Base, Arbitrum, and other EVM-compatible networks.

As a bridge between the smart contract layer and high-performance systems, you will architect, develop, and secure complex DeFi protocols. You aren’t just writing code; you are building the "money legos" of the future, ensuring they are gas-efficient, battle-tested, and capable of handling significant TVL (Total Value Locked).

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.

Responsibilities:

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.

Key Responsibilities