Founding AI Engineer
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Location
- New York
- Posted
- 5d ago
typescriptpythonreact
New York City | Full-Time | Founding Team ABOUT FUTUREPROOFING FutureProofing has partnered with a prolific M&A investment banker to build an end-to-end AI platform for investment banking, a category that has been talked about far more than it has been built. The MVP is roughly a month out. We are looking for an AI engineer who has taken products from zero to one to join a team of senior engineers and carry the product from MVP to market. What You'll Do - Take the product from MVP to something real customers rely on - Build with LLMs, agents, RAG, and evaluation as core product surface, not as bolt-ons - Work directly with the founding team on what gets built and why - Dig into the parts of the system that need real ownership: data pipeline, infra, model integration - Move fast alongside engineers who already know how to ship What We're Looking For - 7+ years shipping production software, with meaningful time at an early-stage company - You have taken at least one AI-powered product from nothing to real users in production, and can explain the tradeoffs you made along the way - Deep in modern stacks, typically TypeScript/React/Node and/or Python, comfortable across the full stack and into infrastructure - Uses AI tooling daily as part of how you actually build - Comfortable with ambiguity and with being the person who decides - Can talk to non-engineers about technical tradeoffs without losing either group - Founding engineer experience is a plus, though this role won't carry the traditional founding-engineer scope of building and owning the whole system solo What Makes This Opportunity Different - The product is category-defining. Investment banking has not been rebuilt around AI yet. This is the attempt to do it, not a feature layered onto something that already exists. - You are early, but not too early. The MVP is nearly built, so you arrive with something real in hand rather than a blank page. - You will build next to people who know the domain cold. Our partner has spent a career doing these deals. You will not be guessing at what bankers need or designing from secondhand assumptions. - A high-autonomy team. You'll work alongside senior engineers who move fast and don't need hand-holding, with real say in the decisions that shape the product.