# Founding Engineer, Understanding Pipeline

Plotwell is building a spreadsheet-to-dashboard product whose understanding pipeline interprets files, selects suitable charts, and computes figures from source data. The Founding Engineer will own reliable parsing, column inference and chart statistics, grounded takeaways, and cost-efficient dashboard generation. Responsibilities Make parsing survive real inputs: mixed date formats, currency symbols, merged headers, a stray total row at the bottom Own column type inference and the statistics behind every chart and outlier Keep the grounding check honest: any takeaway that cites a number we cannot trace to the data gets dropped, and there is a test for it Cut the cost per dashboard without cutting quality, which mostly means routing better rather than prompting cleverer Skills Five or more years building backend or data systems that other people depend on You have worked with language models in production and have opinions about evaluation that came from being burned You write TypeScript comfortably, or you will within a fortnight You care about the difference between a demo and a thing an operator trusts on a Monday Company Overview AI-native analytics platform that turns CSV a

- **Id**: 4226850
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/plotwell-founding-engineer-understanding-pipeline>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T07:20:39Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T07:20:39Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4540728
- **Name**: Plotwell
- **Domain**: getplotwell.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/plotwell>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T08:18:16Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T08:55:17Z

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