# Founding Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage AI company building a platform for commercial real estate portfolio research and operations. As the first dedicated engineering hire, you will work closely with the CTO and domain experts to turn client needs into production software with substantial ownership. What You'll Do Build and own a portfolio research and chat interface for querying enterprise data, generating work products, and conducting analysis. Design and ship reliable agentic workflows, including structured extraction, tool calling, and multi-step AI pipelines. Develop production infrastructure for LLM systems, including evaluations, observability, context construction, structured outputs, and failure handling. Work with clients and domain experts to identify automation opportunities and deliver features from discovery through production. Partner with the CTO to develop deep platform expertise and take independent ownership of your area. What We're Looking For One to three years of experience as a software engineer, founding engineer, or founding AI engineer, with a four-year degree. Strong backend engineering skills in Python, plus familiarity with TypeScript, React, and AWS.

- **Id**: 3884871
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/true-talent-solutions-partners-founding-engineer-48>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T17:38:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T01:51:07Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-10T01:51:07Z
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1897
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Real Estate

## Company

- **Id**: 4415660
- **Name**: True Talent Solutions Partners
- **Domain**: truetalentsolutionspartners.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/true-talent-solutions-partners>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 165000
- **Max**: 185000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 185000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T19:16:51Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 80; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 80 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 185000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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