Founding AI Engineer
New York City | Full-Time | Founding Team
About Futureproofing
FutureProofing has partnered with a prolific M&A investment banker to build an end-to-end AI platform for investment banking, a category that has been talked about far more than it has been built.
The MVP is roughly a month out. We are looking for an AI engineer who has taken products from zero to one to join a team of senior engineers and carry the product from MVP to market.
What You'll Do
Take the product from MVP to something real customers rely on
Build with LLMs, agents, RAG, and evaluation as core product surface, not as bolt-ons
Work directly with the founding team on what gets built and why
Dig into the parts of the system that need real ownership: data pipeline, infra, model integration
Move fast alongside engineers who already know how to ship
What We're Looking For
7+ years shipping production software, with meaningful time at an early-stage company
You have taken at least one AI-powered product from nothing to real users in production, and can explain the tradeoffs you made along the way
Deep in modern stacks, typically TypeScript/React/Node and/or Python, comfortable across the full stack and into infrastructure
Uses AI tooling daily as part of how you actually build
Comfortable with ambiguity and with being the person who decides
Can talk to non-engineers about technical tradeoffs without losing either group
Founding engineer experience is a plus, though this role won't carry the traditional founding-engineer scope of building and owning the whole system solo
What Makes This Opportunity Different
The product is category-defining. Investment banking has not been rebuilt around AI yet. This is the attempt to do it, not a feature layered onto something that already exists.
You are early, but not too early. The MVP is nearly built, so you arrive with something real in hand rather than a blank page.
You will build next to people who know the domain cold. Our partner has spent a career doing these deals. You will not be guessing at what bankers need or designing from secondhand assumptions.
A high-autonomy team. You'll work alongside senior engineers who move fast and don't need hand-holding, with real say in the decisions that shape the product.