Founding AI Engineer

New York City | Full-Time | Founding Team

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.