Founding Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage team building an AI-powered, source-backed model of the global economy, beginning with healthcare. As a Founding Engineer, you will build the infrastructure, tools, and systems that help AI agents turn diverse data sources into reliable, continuously updated industry research. What You'll Do Ship features across the frontend, backend infrastructure, and real-time systems. Build data pipelines and tools that help analysts add sources and maintain industry coverage reliably. Improve agent-based parsing and extraction systems, including how they handle complex research tasks. Own work end to end, from data inspection and quality assurance through instrumentation, production releases, and debugging. Develop a company ontology and an initial 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 less of professional experience. Hands-on experience deploying agentic AI systems or LLM-based applications in production, and sound judgment about when to use AI reasoning versus deterministic software. Full-stack capability, with depth in at least one area such as backend engineering, data infrastructure, applied AI, or product engineering. Python backend experience with FastAPI or an equivalent framework, plus TypeScript and React. Experience with ETL, data modeling, SQL, relational database design and optimization, and production monitoring and debugging. Familiarity with AWS, real-time data systems, and streaming updates; experience with modern data tools or edge infrastructure is a plus. Experience in software engineering at an investment firm, including recent AI project work, is required. Capital markets, financial research, or investment banking experience is a plus. Must be a U.S. citizen and able to work on-site in New York City five days per week, either locally or after relocating. Compensation & Benefits Salary: $156,000 to $182,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. Equity and other benefits were not specified. Location On-site in New York City, New York, five days per week.