Founding Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage AI-powered financial research company focused on healthcare as a founding engineer. You will build the infrastructure, tools, and systems that help AI agents transform diverse data sources into reliable, continuously updated industry research. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and ship features across the frontend, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure. - Create data pipelines and tools that help analysts add sources and maintain industry coverage efficiently. - Improve AI agent parsing and extraction systems for greater capability and reliability. - Own projects end to end, from data inspection and quality assurance through instrumentation, production releases, and debugging. - Develop a company ontology and an earnings research product. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 2 years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems, with approximately 7 years or fewer of professional experience. - Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic AI systems or LLM applications in production, with recent AI project work. - Full-stack capability, including Python backend development with FastAPI or an equivalent framework, TypeScript, and React. - Experience with data pipelines, ETL, data modeling, SQL, and relational database design and optimization, such as PostgreSQL. - Experience with AWS, production observability, distributed systems debugging, and real-time data or streaming systems. - Strong ownership and sound judgment about when to use AI reasoning versus deterministic software. - Financial research, capital markets, investment banking, or broader financial services experience is a plus, as is experience with modern data tools, edge computing, or AI/ML infrastructure. - U.S. citizenship is required. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $156,000 to $182,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION On-site in New York, New York, five days per week. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.