Founding Software Engineer - AI Evaluation & Data Infrastructure

Location: San Francisco

compensation: $150K - $240K

We are building the most complex infrastructure that powers frontier data creation for agentic and hard reasoning workflows, helping push the frontier of LLMs and AI Agents. We work with all 5 of the leading AI labs and are experiencing sharp hockey stick growth. We are seeking a Founding Software Engineer with end-to-end ownership to build the systems that power data and evaluation for the next generation of AI.

This is a dynamic, high-impact role that offers immense breadth of ownership over projects that push the frontier of AI evaluation. You will move fluidly across the entire stack, from research prototyping to distributed cloud infrastructure and user-facing analytics. You must be comfortable with constant context switching and relentless shipping in a talent-dense environment.

What You’ll Do:

Founding Full Stack Software Engineer (Backend/AI Focus)

Location: Los Angeles, CA, US (On-site)

Employment Type: Full-time

Salary Range: $160K - $225K

We are a rapidly growing, Y-Combinator-backed (YC X25) startup operating at the intersection of AI and Cybersecurity. We are building fully autonomous, in-house AI agent systems designed to solve critical, large-scale problems in modern web application security. Join a small, high-impact founding team to define and build the core technology from the ground up.

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Founding Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong focus on backend development and AI systems. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining highly scalable, high-performance web applications and our cutting-edge AI Agent platform.

Founding Engineer - AI Data Cleaning & Financial Infrastructure

Location: On site - New York

Compensation: $150,000 – $250,000

We are a high-growth, YC-backed company building the clean data layer for everyone, starting with financial firms. Our platform solves complex data cleaning challenges, delivering accurate, refined data via a simple API that integrates effortlessly into existing ELT pipelines, combining the best of AI and expert human review. We are seeking a Founding Engineer to design, build, and scale our core AI-powered data systems.

This is an unparalleled opportunity to join an early team and drive both the product strategy and the technical direction of the company. You will have immense impact and ownership, working across the entire stack to create a reliable and accurate data platform. You must be a strong engineer excited to work at the intersection of production software and frontier AI/LLM technologies.

What You’ll Do:

Founding AI Engineer (Healthcare Focus)

Location: Albuquerque, NM (On-site, 5 days/week)

Employment Type: Full-time

Compensation Structure: Salary: $150K + Significant Equity

We are a mission-driven, pre-seed startup focused on reimagining healthcare delivery through state-of-the-art AI capabilities. Join a small, high-ownership founding team as the inaugural AI Engineer, where your work will directly transform patient and clinician experiences. This role offers the unique opportunity to operate as a co-founder and is ideal for a builder motivated by massive impact.

We are seeking a curious, creative, and disciplined Founding AI Engineer to take the lead in integrating and deploying AI solutions that re-engineer complex clinical workflows. This role demands high autonomy, a deep technical skillset, and a relentless focus on solving real-world challenges in the healthcare space.

What You'll Be Doing:

Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Platform)

Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site, 4-5 days/week)

Employment Type: Full-time

Salary Range: $120K - $180K

We are a rapidly growing, Series A-funded technology company (backed by top-tier VCs) providing an AI platform for building and deploying automated communication workers in the complex logistics and supply chain industry. We are looking for a versatile engineer with unstoppable energy and a relentless drive to maximize customer value.

This role requires a unique blend of strong technical skills (Python) and exceptional communication abilities. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of customer engineering and technical development, serving as the critical link between our AI platform and our enterprise customers.

Key Responsibilities:

Applied AI Engineer

Location: NYC (On-site, 5 days/week)

Employment Type: Full-time

Salary Range: $150K - $225K

We are a rapidly growing, well-funded technology company operating at the intersection of AI, Software Development, and the Healthcare/Life Sciences industry. We are building a foundational network and applying advanced AI techniques to revolutionize how new life-changing therapies reach patients. This is a demanding, high-autonomy role with end-to-end responsibility for driving measurable business impact. Visa sponsorship is available.

As an Applied AI Engineer, you will be responsible for leveraging LLMs and various Machine Learning techniques to solve critical business problems, automate complex processes, and create groundbreaking AI applications across our product suite. This role requires a deep understanding of the business domain to ensure your technical output directly drives user growth, operational efficiency, and revenue generation.

Key Responsibilities:

On behalf of our client, we are currently recruiting for an Applications Administrator, responsible for the configuration, administration, support and optimization of the Group’s SaaS platforms and internal IT systems. The role combines technical system administration with IT knowledge, ensuring that all business applications are secure, integrated and performing optimally. This position supports business continuity, user productivity, and digital transformation initiatives across the Group.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Manager (Player-Coach) - AI & Real-Time Data Platform

Location: On site - San Francisco or New York

We are an ambitious, high-growth AI and Media startup, redefining how organizations comprehend, summarize, and act on insights from real-time traditional and social media data (text, audio, and video). We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to build, lead, and scale our engineering team, driving technical excellence and a high-velocity culture as we rapidly expand our enterprise-grade platform.

This is a critical player-coach role where you will blend technical leadership with hands-on contribution. You will set the technical direction for our stack, scale our infrastructure for enterprise customers, and build a high-performing team. Success requires a constant balance between shipping with urgency to meet customer demands and making sound architectural decisions to ensure long-term scalability and reliability.

What You Will Do:

We are looking for a Senior DevSecOps who will help make our cloud infrastructure safe, stable, and automated. You will work together with the development, platform, and security teams to add security at every step of product creation.

This is a great chance to grow in security automation, improve processes, and bring modern DevSecOps practices into the company.

Requirements

Must-Have Skills

5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps / DevSecOps / Cloud Engineering roles;

Deep expertise with AWS services (IAM, VPC, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, KMS, WAF);

Proven experience with Kubernetes security — RBAC, network segmentation, image scanning, Falco or similar runtime security tools;

Strong proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code tools, particularly Terraform (modules, state management, policy as code);

Experience managing CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions with integrated vulnerability scanning and secret protection;

Solid knowledge of Cloudflare security suite (Zero Trust, WAF, DNS, Access, API Gateway rules);

Familiarity with SSO and MFA solutions (DUO SSO, OIDC flows, federation via SAML);

Scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go;

About Us

At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 250 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data.

For more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.

Zyte is seeking an experienced Team Lead to manage our Core & MLOps Squad, responsible for "Building the bedrock infrastructure that powers Zyte at scale." This hands-on technical leadership role requires expertise across MLOps, systems programming, and orchestration to lead a cross-functional team in designing and maintaining the scalable foundation that enables all Zyte teams to build and run their services with confidence.

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