Founding Engineer jobs: 46 open roles
Open founding engineer jobs taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open.

The market for founding engineer work
Every figure names its source. Skills and AI-skill shares describe the whole Engineering function this title sits in.
- Verified open founding engineer jobs
- 46
- Engineering openings that ask for AI skills
- 8%
Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.
See the detail →Source: NextChapter verified openings.
Skills most often named in openings
- 1. python9%
- 2. project management6%
- 3. agile5%
- 4. aws5%
- 5. supply chain4%
- 6. ci/cd4%
- 7. azure4%
- 8. linux4%
AI skills worth building for this work
- 1. ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- 2. LLM application engineering
- 3. RAG and vector search
- 4. Model fine-tuning
- 5. Model training and deep learning
- 6. MLOps
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Open founding engineer jobs
Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
- Founding Engineer
Clarity · New York, New York
Nov 3, 2026
- Founding Engineer
Subimage · San Francisco, CA; ONSITE (5 days/week)
Nov 2, 2026
- Founding Engineer (AI Supply Chain Startup)
ScrumAID · San Francisco, CA
Nov 1, 2026
- Founding Engineer (Insurtech Startup)
ScrumAID · New York, NY
Nov 1, 2026
- Founding Engineer, Frontend-Leaning (Consumer Trading Startup)
ScrumAID · New York, NY
Nov 1, 2026
- Founding Engineer, Markets (AI Trading Startup)
ScrumAID · San Jose, CA
Nov 1, 2026
- Founding Engineer, AI Agents (Early-Stage Startup)
ScrumAID · San Francisco, CA
Nov 1, 2026
- Founding Engineer, Transportation
Corgi · Boston, MA, USA
$180k–$225k · Nov 1, 2026
- Founding Engineer, Second Hire (Dental AI Startup)
ScrumAID · San Francisco, CA
Nov 1, 2026
- Founding Engineer, RL Environments and Evals (Seed-Stage AI)
ScrumAID · San Francisco, CA
Nov 1, 2026
- Founding Engineer, Data Platform
Flying Wire · Remote, Atlanta, GA, USA
Oct 20, 2026
- Founding Engineer
Alldus · San Francisco, California
Oct 1, 2026
- Founding Engineer, Unit 26
SharkNinja · Needham, MA, United States
Sep 29, 2026
- Founding Engineer
Eventual · New York, NY (HQ)
$150k–$300k · Sep 14, 2026
- Founding Engineer - Kernel & Compiler Lead
Nawork · Sunnyvale, California
Aug 21, 2026
Showing the newest 15 of about 46 verified open jobs here. Search all jobs
Engineering jobs in the rankings
Rankings about engineering jobs
- Best cities for software and engineering jobs #1 San Francisco (3,412 openings)
- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
- Most requested AI skills in engineering jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (6.1%)
- AI tools named most often in engineering jobs #1 Claude (1.7%)
- Employers with the most engineering jobs #1 Amazon (2,992 roles)
Where founding engineer jobs are
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Founding Engineer jobs by city and state
Employers hiring founding engineers
- RFS Group 7
- ScrumAID 7
- DRH Search 3
- Alldus 3
- hireVouch 3
- Backbone Systems 3
- Career Renew 2
- SharkNinja 1
- Nawork 1
- Clarity 1
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