Founding AI Engineer

Hillview Consulting Solutions; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity up to 2%

Job summary

Hillview Consulting Solutions seeks a Founding Engineer with 3–10 years of post-grad software experience to join a profitable, bootstrapped trading platform. You will build the world’s most advanced pricing technology for live event ticketing, shipping improvements that impact the bottom line in hours.

You will own core platform systems—pricing engine, bidding system, and data infrastructure—design AI research pipelines for production, and create AI-powered systems for automated triage and

Qualifications

• 3–10 years of experience post-grad software engineering.
• Experience at top-tier tech companies or ambitious startups with strong engineering orgs.
• Experience in platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build and own core platform systems—the pricing engine, bidding system, and data infrastructure for real-time ticket trading.
• Design AI research pipelines to run ongoing model research in production.
• Build A/B testing frameworks for pricing engine and optimize bidding throughput.
• Create AI-powered operational systems for automated triage, production failure response, and model drift detection.

Skills

Python

Backend engineering

AI/ML

Data pipelines

Real-time systems

Tools

Python

AI/ML workflows

Data pipelines

Real-time systems

Agentic AI workflows

Job description

Comp range of $200K – $400K plus up to 2% equity

Why candidates should join

• Bootstrapped and highly profitable - went from $0 to $80M in six months with a tiny cost basis. No VC dependency or dilution risk.
• You'd be the first engineering hire. Every improvement you ship hits the bottom line, often within hours.
• Comp range of $200K – $400K plus up to 2% equity in a cash-flow-positive business that's already ripping.
• AI-native from day one - agentic workflows power real-time pricing and bidding systems in live markets. You're building classical ML systems using AI developer workflows.

History of rapid career progression.

Strong data intuition and curiosity about the business: reasons from data to a pricing or product call.

Deeply AI forward in their developer workflows.

Seniority

3 - 10 years of experience post- grad software engineering with deep adoption of agentic AI workflows.

Experience at top- tier technology companies including smaller companies that have been successful or are solving really hard problems as well as larger companies with strong engineering orgs.

Experience in platform engineering.

Experience designing and operating data- intensive production systems, ideally Python- based.

Comfortable taking risks and being wrong.

Strong opinions with demonstrated ability to push back and challenge decisions.

Traits to avoid

Mainly quant, ML research or forward- deployed background rather than backend/systems engineering

Extended breaks in employment history.

JD:

We are looking for a Founding Engineer with 3 - 10 years of experience to join a highly profitable, bootstrapped trading platform that has scaled from $0 to $80M in six months. You'll be the first engineering hire building the world's most advanced pricing technology in live event ticketing where every improvement you ship hits the bottom line within hours.

What you will do:

Build and own core platform systems - the pricing engine, bidding system, and data infrastructure that power real-time ticket trading

Design AI research pipelines that turn today's interactive, session-by-session model research into continuously running infrastructure

Build A/B testing frameworks for the pricing engine and optimize bidding system throughput

Create AI-powered operational systems for automated triage, production failure response, and model drift detection

Tech Stack

Python, AI/ML, Agentic AI Workflows, Data Pipelines, Real time systems, Classical Machine Learning