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Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $300K/yr

  • Retirement

We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to help us build an AI-powered knowledge platform that companies love. As a founding engineer, you'll have a major impact on our product development ...

The Founding AI Engineer will be responsible for developing the core intelligence for these agents, including designing training pipelines and improving decision-making through reinforcement learning.

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

About the Role A fast-growing, AI-first consumer social platform is hiring a Founding AI Engineer to join its core team in San Francisco. The company uses AI agents to facilitate real-world, in ...

As a Founding AI Engineer, you will work closely with the founders to build advanced systems that streamline compliance with evolving building codes and enhance the design process. Responsibilities ...

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

Founding AI Engineer We founded Bild AI to tackle the mess that is blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It's a tough technical problem that requires the newest ...

Founding AI Engineer

$106K - $143K/yr

They are seeking a Founding AI Software Engineer to lead the development and scaling of their voice AI-based product and work closely with the founders to shape the direction of the company.

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

About the Role A fast-growing, AI-first consumer social platform is hiring a Founding AI Engineer to join its core team in San Francisco. The company uses AI agents to facilitate real-world, in ...

Founding AI Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $260K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

Founding AI Product Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA (60 hour work weeks) Compensation: $200,000-$260,000 base + equity + benefits About the Opportunity An early-stage, profitable AI ...

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

About the Role This is a founding AI engineering role at a seed-stage construction technology company building an intelligence layer that transforms messy blueprints, permits, and construction ...

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a seed-stage AI startup building the intelligence layer for the construction industry. The company's platform transforms messy blueprints ...

Founding AI / ML Engineer Location: Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid -3 days) - Remote Employment Type: Full-Time Salary: $180K + equity About Company: ***** is building the AI-powered workflow layer for ...

Founding AI Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $260K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

Founding AI Product Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA (60 hour work weeks) Compensation: $200,000-$260,000 base + equity + benefits About the Opportunity An early-stage, profitable AI ...

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a seed-stage AI startup building the intelligence layer for the construction industry. The company's platform transforms messy blueprints ...

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

About the Role This is a founding AI engineering role at a seed-stage construction technology company building an intelligence layer that transforms messy blueprints, permits, and construction ...

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a seed-stage AI startup building the intelligence layer for the construction industry. The company uses cutting-edge computer vision and ...

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$160K - $210K/yr

  • Medical

  • Retirement

We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to improve Mason's accuracy on our evals. You will go deep on the cutting edge of optimizing multimodal AI agents. We have similar technical problems as other ...

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Founding AI Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

Founding AI Engineer (AI + Production) New York City (5 days on-site) • Top of market + equity + benefits TL;DR: Build AI that accelerates nuclear deployment. Own AI production from evals to fine ...

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$150K - $250K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

About the Role As a Founding AI Engineer, you will own the core intelligence of Bronco's agents. That means designing the training pipelines, reward models, and evaluation harnesses that will make ...

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How much do founding ai jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 18, 2026, the average yearly pay for founding ai in the United States is $139,438.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $84,000.00 and $197,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

How do you start a founding AI career with no experience?

Starting a founding AI career with no experience involves gaining foundational knowledge through online courses, tutorials, and self-study in areas like machine learning, programming, and data analysis. Building a portfolio of projects, participating in open-source initiatives, and learning relevant tools such as Python and TensorFlow can help demonstrate skills to employers or investors. Entry often requires persistence, continuous learning, and networking within AI communities or startup environments.
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Infographic showing various Founding Ai job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 76% Full Time, 21% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 64% Physical, 4% Hybrid, and 32% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $139,438 per year, or $67 per hour.

Founding AI Engineer

Falconer AI

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$200K - $300K/yr

Full-time

Retirement

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Job description

At Falconer, we're transforming how engineers create, access, and share knowledge with each other and their AI agents. We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to help us build an AI-powered knowledge platform that companies love.
As a founding engineer, you'll have a major impact on our product development, technical direction, and culture.
Key responsibilities:
  • Participate in the entire product development lifecycle, including architecture, coding, testing, and deploying
  • Research and apply best practices in terms of Knowledge Graph, embeddings, vector and graph RAG search, fine-tuning, and model optimization
  • Develop and maintain backend systems including API services, databases, and server-side logic
  • Optimize tech stack and applications for maximum precision and speed
  • Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following industry best practices-the Falconer platform will help you!
  • Stay updated with emerging technologies in web development and make recommendations for adopting new tools and practices

Who you are:
  • Advanced degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in developing ML data pipelines
  • Experience with text embeddings, RAG systems, and similarity search
  • Familiar with Entity and Relationship recognition models
  • Skilled at prompt engineering
  • Ability to implement backend systems in Python and/or Node.js
  • You can evaluate tradeoffs and propose the most appropriate storage solution (SQL, NoSQL, Vector DBs, Graph databases)
  • You enjoy hard problems and open-ended assignments
  • You use data to make decisions, and experiment your way around hard problems

Bonus points:
  • You've developed products with LLMs before (extra if you've already built your own agents)
  • You have fine-tuned foundational models to tailor responses to specific data use cases
  • You have experience with LlamaIndex and Memgraph to produce knowledge graphs

Perks and benefits:
  • Generous equity package
  • Competitive salary and benefits
  • 401(k) retirement account
  • The best equipment and tools, like a spec'd out MacBook, and dev prod tools like Cursor, Claude, and Linear to help you move fast
  • Flexible work arrangements with in-office work or hybrid work for the right candidate
  • Our current office is in San Francisco, just steps from Caltrain

At Falconer, we value diversity and equal opportunities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. If you are passionate about technology and thrive in a challenging environment, come join our team and help us shape the future of work communication.