Founding Data Product Engineer

Recruiting From Scratch; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding role

Onsite in San Francisco

Competitive equity

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch in San Francisco, CA is looking for a Data Product Engineer to own the complete data layer powering our platform. This is an on-site, founding role with significant ownership, working with AI-native data systems and enterprise data sources.

You will build end-to-end data pipelines, ingest external data, and deliver production-grade infrastructure for AI agents, while collaborating with customers and product teams to solve strategic data problems.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional software or data engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating production data systems end-to-end.
• Experience owning data platforms from ingestion through deployment.
• Experience at high-growth startups or rapidly scaling technology companies.
• Strong product mindset with the ability to connect technical decisions to customer value.
• Experience working with AI-native products or modern machine learning systems.
• Comfortable operating independently without established processes or playbooks.
• Demonstrated ownership of production infrastructure, reliability, monitoring, and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the company's end-to-end data platform from ingestion through production deployment.
• Work directly with enterprise customers to identify high-value external data sources and new product opportunities.
• Design, build, and operate production data pipelines for structured and unstructured datasets.
• Integrate legal records, financial documents, insurance filings, PDFs, and other complex enterprise data into the platform.
• Develop scalable ingestion, extraction, transformation, and orchestration systems supporting AI agents.
• Build evaluation harnesses to monitor data quality, agent performance, and production reliability.
• Design search infrastructure enabling fast, accurate retrieval for LLM-powered applications.
• Build data products that expose clean, production-ready information directly to AI agents and customers.
• Own schema evolution, monitoring, pipeline reliability, and production maintenance.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and customers to translate ambiguous business problems into scalable technical solutions.
• Build AI-powered workflows using modern LLMs, retrieval systems, and agent frameworks.
• Establish engineering best practices across data architecture, testing, deployment, and reliability.
• Operate with founder-level ownership in a fast-moving startup environment while helping define the company's long-term data strategy.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

AI-enabled workflows

Ownership

Customer empathy

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

APIs

Retrieval systems

LLM workflows

Job description

Recruiting from Scratch in San Francisco, CA is looking for a Data Product Engineer to own the complete data layer powering our platform. This is an on-site, founding role with significant ownership, working with AI-native data systems and enterprise data sources.

You will build end-to-end data pipelines, ingest external data, and deliver production-grade infrastructure for AI agents, while collaborating with customers and product teams to solve strategic data problems.