# Founding Product Engineer

We’re hiring the first engineer for our new product. You will own this from start to initial launch. Building the best APIs for realtime people and company data took us from 0 to $4M ARR in first 9 months while catering to just Who you are 5+ years of experience in shipping production software Prior experience of working with sales/gtm teams in the past would be extremely beneficial A true grinder - we work very hard Founder mentality - someone who wants to be a founder in future OR was a founder earlier and hates eating glass every day. This is a role with founder-level excitement of uncovering the unknowns minus the risks What you’ll be doing Lead the 0→1 build of a new product on top of our APIs. Including building core algorithms and architecture for creating deterministic AI agents on the fly from natural language Own product strategy and execution end-to-end: user discovery, scoping, rapid prototyping, shipping, iteration, and metrics. Collaborate with Sales/CS to define high-leverage workflows Build production-quality UX (fast, simple, correct), with pragmatic choices over perfect abstractions. Partner with the Head of Engineering on architecture, reliability, and data/priv

- **Id**: 1240379
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/crustdata-founding-product-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T16:39:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T21:39:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1327
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: B2B Company & Contact Data

## Company

- **Id**: 2397442
- **Name**: Crust Data
- **Domain**: crustdata.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/crustdata>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T16:39:24Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 35
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.769
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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