Founding Engineer for AI-Driven Research Platform

Altis; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Ground-floor impact

CEO exposure

Job summary

Altis, a New York City‑based research company, is building its Founding Engineering team to drive product offerings and own different parts of the tech stack. You’ll report directly to the CEO, partner with our existing engineering team on architecture and roadmap, and help grow the team from 2 engineers today toward roughly 10.

The biggest gap you’ll close on day one is bringing a product mindset to our roadmap tied to speeding up research workflows.

Qualifications

• Proven track record shipping software adopted by users
• Comfort owning and communicating delivery timelines
• Strong communication with technical peers and CEO
• Experience with AI-native or LLM-powered products

Responsibilities

• Own roadmap and delivery of internal research‑enablement tooling
• Commit to engineering delivery dates and flag slippage early
• Partner on architecture decisions including API/MCP access
• Report to the CEO as a technical thought partner on roadmap tradeoffs
• Stand up the engineering processes needed for a growing team
• Help design and run the technical interview process as the team scales

Skills

Shipping quality software

Delivery ownership

Technical communication

AI/LLM products

Tools

API design

MCP-style surfaces

Job description

Altis, a New York City‑based research company, is building its Founding Engineering team to drive product offerings and own different parts of the tech stack. You’ll report directly to the CEO, partner with our existing engineering team on architecture and roadmap, and help grow the team from 2 engineers today toward roughly 10.

The biggest gap you’ll close on day one is bringing a product mindset to our roadmap tied to speeding up research workflows.