founding engineer jobs in Chicago

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  • chicago, illinois, United States DocLoop Health Full-time

    Remote (US) or Miami · 6+ hours overlap with Eastern About DocLoop DocLoop is the AI operating system for cash-pay practices in longevity, hormone, peptide, functional, and concierge medicine. Our mission is to give physicians their practice back. About 4 in 5 US physicians now work for a hospital, health system, or corporation. Many of those who go out on...


  • Chicago, Illinois, United States Staffing Science Full-time

    Founding Security Engineer | Series B Dev Infrastructure Company | RemoteMost \"security engineer\" job posts are lying to you. They say \"wear many hats\" and mean \"inherit five years of someone elses backlog.\" This ones different: youd be employee #1 in security at a fast-growing, well-funded Series B developer infrastructure company whose product sits...


  • Chicago, IL, United States Motion Recruitment Full-time

    Motion Recruitment is seeking a Founding Engineer for a venture-backed Chicago startup. Hybrid role in River North, focusing on building an AI-powered platform for the lower middle market finance sector.You will shape architecture, scale the platform, and help build the engineering organization from day one. The ideal candidate has startup leadership...

  • Founding Engineer

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    Chicago, IL, United States Clera Labs, Inc. Full-time $120,000 - $180,000

    We're building the future of recruiting with AI – and we need an exceptional engineer to join our founding team in our San Francisco hackerhouse. We just raised a $3M pre‑seed from top‑tier investors and are looking for someone to be one of our first engineering hires. This is the real deal: meaningful equity, direct impact on product direction, and...


  • Chicago, IL, United States Disability Solutions Full-time

    Founding Security Engineer | Series B Dev Infrastructure Company | RemoteMost \"security engineer\" job posts are lying to you. They say \"wear many hats\" and mean \"inherit five years of someone elses backlog.\" This ones different: youd be employee #1 in security at a fast-growing, well-funded Series B developer infrastructure company whose product sits...


  • Chicago, IL, United States Bellhop Labs Full-time

    $12,000 USD per month, plus 1.5% to 3% equity The equity range depends on experience About Bellhop Bellhop is building screenless, voice-first AI hardware designed for older adults. We are an early-stage startup founded by two Stanford alumni. Our investors and advisors include current employees of Apple, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Waymo. There...


  • chicago, illinois, United States Owle AI Full-time

    ** Must have healthcare / Med tech experience Company Description Owle AI is an AI-driven healthcare platform focused on improving patient outcomes by elevating the quality of care delivered. The company builds intelligent tools that help clinicians and care teams make better, data-informed decisions at the point of care. Role Description The GTM...


  • Chicago, IL, United States Jobrapido Full-time

    ** Must have healthcare / Med tech experience Company Description Owle AI is an AI-driven healthcare platform focused on improving patient outcomes by elevating the quality of care delivered. The company builds intelligent tools that help clinicians and care teams make better, data-informed decisions at the point of care. Role Description The GTM...

  • Founding Engineer

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    Chicago, IL, United States Tech in Motion Full-time

    A venture-backed technology startup in Chicago is seeking a full-time Founding Engineer to help scale an AI-powered platform serving the lower middle market finance sector. This hybrid opportunity is based in River North and combines modern technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, FastAPI, Postgres, cloud infrastructure, and cutting-edge Generative...


  • Chicago, IL, United States Raydar Full-time

    The Role And Why It MattersThis is a founding Forward Deployed Engineer role with direct access to the co-founders and Head of AI. You will build and deploy applied-AI products across multiple vertical software companies, identify repeatable patterns, and turn successful deployments into reusable platform capabilities.What You'll DoRun discovery with...


  • Chicago, IL, United States StitcherAds Full-time

    Kargo is building toward a unified platform where advertisers run campaigns across CTV, web, mobile apps, and social entirely self-serve. This is the first time that capability goes directly into clients' hands.Clients will pull their own reports, debug their own setups, and ask why a campaign isn't pacing, so the data behind them must be quick to extend,...

  • Founding Engineer

    2 days ago


    Chicago, IL, United States Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC Full-time

    A venture-backed technology startup in Chicago is seeking a full-time Founding Engineer to help scale an AI-powered platform serving the lower middle market finance sector. This hybrid opportunity is based in River North and combines modern technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, FastAPI, Postgres, cloud infrastructure, and cutting-edge Generative...


  • Chicago, IL, United States SentiLink Corp Full-time

    SentiLink Corp is hiring a Founding Mobile Developer to own the mobile SDKs for device fingerprinting across iOS and Android. You’ll work with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Fraud Intelligence, and Sales to bring device signals into SentiLink’s products and strengthen our fraud detection.This is a remote, US-based role with strong ownership...


  • Chicago, IL, United States GC AI Full-time

    GC AI is the legal intelligence platform built for in-house legal teams and companies. Your decisions shape the product, your impact is immediate, and you own your work from day one.More than 2,100 companies run their legal work on GC AI, including 300+ public companies, 75+ unicorns, and teams at Nestlé, Hitachi Digital, Lockheed Martin, Miro, Bass Pro...


  • Chicago, Illinois, United States True Talent Solutions Partners Full-time $200,000 - $250,000 Contract

    About the Role Join an early-stage vertical SaaS and AI team to build and deploy applied AI solutions for enterprise customers. This founding role will shape customer deployments and the technical practices that support the growing function. What You'll Do • Lead customer discovery, translate business problems into product specifications, and build AI...


  • Chicago, IL, United States Jobrapido Full-time

    Founding Software Engineer Who we are and what we’re building DMC’s mission is to cut the cycle time from concept to a manufacturable design by 10-100x. Momentum is a software platform we are developing to achieve that goal by changing the shape of the workflow from serial to parallel. We are building this platform alongside real aerospace companies...


  • chicago, illinois, United States QualGent Full-time

    About QualGent QualGent answers the question every mobile team asks before they ship: \"What's wrong with my app that I don't know about yet?\" We're an ex-Google, YC-backed team of 10 building the verification layer for mobile apps. As coding agents write more of the app, someone still has to catch what they miss before users do. We combine AI with expert...


  • Chicago, IL, United States Invoca Full-time

    About Invoca Invoca is the revenue execution and platform leader that helps marketing, commerce, and contact center teams turn every conversation into revenue. Through its AI agents, Invoca engages, qualifies, and converts customers across SMS and voice, orchestrating seamless buyer journeys and measurable, profitable growth. With over 300 employees, 2,000+...


  • Chicago, IL, United States Invoca Full-time

    Invoca is seeking a Founding Head of Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead a team of engineers embedded in our Go-to-Market motion. You will hire, coach, and scale the FDE function, prioritizing deals and accounts with technical needs and serving as the escalation point for high-stakes implementations.In this player-coach role, you will influence...


  • chicago, illinois, United States DMC Technologies Full-time

    Founding Software Engineer Who we are and what we’re building DMC’s mission is to cut the cycle time from concept to a manufacturable design by 10-100x. Momentum is a software platform we are developing to achieve that goal by changing the shape of the workflow from serial to parallel. We are building this platform alongside real aerospace companies...