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Founding Engineer

New York City Metropolitan Area Full-time On-site $150k — $300k per year 08/25/2026 Job ID: 000031
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AI-powered products retrieval memory agent frameworks context engineering

Summary

What you’ll impact

Fonzi is an AI recruiting platform connecting engineers with pre‑vetted AI startups in NYC and San Francisco. They are seeking founding engineers who have built end‑to‑end AI‑powered products and can thrive in ambiguous, small‑team startup environments. Candidates will be matched with companies that submit competing salary bids directly to them.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

  • Work on assigned tasks
  • Collaborate with team members
  • Meet project deadlines

Requirements

What you’ll bring

  • Have built AI-powered products end-to-end, not just prototypes, but systems handling real users
  • Can talk fluently about retrieval, memory, agent frameworks, context engineering, eval pipelines and anything else at the cutting edge
  • Combine strong software engineering fundamentals with deep awareness of what's happening at the frontier of LLMs and agentic systems
  • Thrive in startup environments where the problem is ambiguous and the team is small
  • Have 2-8 years of experience, ideally with experience at at least one high-growth company
  • Location: New York City Metropolitan Area

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