The Opportunity EQL Tech is partnering with PhormAI to hire an exceptional Founding Engineer to join its team as the company builds Darwin, its Physical AI platform for Health & Wellness, into the technical backbone of a multi-vertical health intelligence business. PhormAI is building Darwin to ingest multimodal sensor data — wearables, video, IMU, ECG — and generate clinical-grade insights through agentic AI. The platform is already live with paying customers across two distinct verticals: animal health (equine cardiac monitoring) and human health (tele-ICU intelligence deployed across multiple hospitals), with the architecture designed to extend into further verticals by swapping domain-specific ontologies rather than rebuilding the stack. The Role You'll be PhormAI's Founding Engineer. Reporting directly to the founders, you'll own the technical foundation of the product — the data and model pipelines, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and the application layer built on top. Data pipelines: Build the pipelines that ingest, process, and transform data for the models. Cloud infrastructure: Stand up and operate compute, storage, networking, and deployment from scratch. Orchestration: Build the layer connecting ingestion, training, inference, evaluation, and serving. Operational foundations: Establish CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and alerting from the ground up. Application layer: Contribute to APIs, services, and user-facing surfaces on top of the platform. Technical strategy: Make foundational architectural decisions in direct partnership with the founders. Requirements Seniority isn't the bar here — what matters is a first-principles understanding of the stack and a track record of building end-to-end systems. You don't need a decade of experience. Python and SQL fundamentals that are genuinely strong, not just familiar. Production data pipelines — hands-on experience with Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar. Cloud proficiency — AWS, GCP, or Azure, including provisioning, IAM, and networking. Containers & orchestration — Docker and Kubernetes (or a managed equivalent). Infrastructure-as-code — Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK. Backend API design — REST, GraphQL, or gRPC, with working knowledge of auth. Relational database design — Postgres or similar, including query optimization. AI developer tooling — proficient with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar. Cross-stack debugging — a track record of operating across the stack and untangling complex systems. Engineering judgment — sound instincts on trade-offs, not just technical breadth. Nice to have: real-time streaming systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, Flink); open-source contributions; experience with health or clinical data; full-stack product experience shipping user-facing web applications. Benefits Founding equity — meaningful ownership of the technical roadmap. Competitive base salary. Small, high-trust team — your work directly shapes the product. Build it right from day one — no legacy debt to inherit.