Founding Product Engineer (Client Search) AI B2B SaaS NYC (In-Person)
Were partnering with a seed-stage B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered sales software for the $9T chemicals industry an industry still operating on PDFs spreadsheets and tribal knowledge.
Our client is tackling the needle-in-a-haystack problem for technical sales teams by combining deep domain expertise with AI agents. They have early customer traction strong investor backing and are now building their founding engineering team.
This is a confidential search for one of their earliest product engineers.
The Role
This is a founding-level Product Engineer ownership high trust real influence.
Youll work directly with the founders and customers to build the core product from the ground up shaping not just features but architecture workflows and engineering culture.
If you enjoy zero-to-one work shipping quickly and owning outcomes end-to-end this role was designed for you.
What Youll Do
Build and ship full-stack product features used by real customers
(React / TypeScript frontend Python backend)
Translate customer pain into shipped functionality fast
Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed with scale
Influence product direction engineering standards and team culture
Operate effectively without heavy process or rigid specs
What Our Client Is Looking For
48 years of professional software engineering experience
Strong full-stack capability (React/TypeScript Python)
High agency: you unblock yourself move fast and take ownership
Comfort operating in ambiguity and early-stage environments
Clear communicator who enjoys working directly with customers
Excited to work in-person in NYC (45 days/week)
Nice to Have
Experience with LLMs AI agents or modern AI tooling
Background building data-heavy or workflow-driven applications
Previous startup or founding-team experience
Why This Opportunity
Founding-level impact: your work will shape the product and company
Immediate customer exposure: what you build gets used right away
Meaningful equity: above-market equity for early builders
Small sharp team: autonomy trust and speed over bureaucracy
Compensation
$140k$200k base
Generous above-market equity
Interested
Apply here or message us directly to learn more about the client team and opportunity.
Required Experience:
IC
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