Founding Engineer
About The Position
Pascal is building AI-native systems for the consumer packaged goods sector, equipping companies in the offline economy with foundational intelligence and decision-making capabilities across finance, sales, and operations. As one of the company’s first employees, the Founding Engineer will deliver modern, agent-first architectures to customers, build foundational infrastructure, resolve large-scale data extraction challenges, design primitives for multi-step agents, and deploy production agents for enterprise customers. The role will also help shape the culture of the founding team and includes technical engagement with customers and prospects. The position is in-person at Pascal’s New York City office five days a week.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of engineering experience working with modern server-side and client-side languages.
- A track record of defining and delivering cross-stack technical designs.
- Ability to distill outcome-driven customer requirements into clear hypotheses and solutions.
- Strong debugging intuition when operating in production environments with limited playbooks.
- Openness to exploring and bringing new agentic workflows into day-to-day engineering processes.
- A first-principles, direct, and collaborative mindset.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with GCP and Terraform.
- Familiarity with large-scale document data extraction.
- Familiarity with search tooling and retrieval methodologies at scale.
Responsibilities
- Build foundational infrastructure for single-tenant and multi-tenant hosting models.
- Resolve messy data extraction challenges at terabyte scale.
- Design primitives for multi-step, memory-intensive agents and their data access policies.
- Deploy production agents for marquee enterprise customers.
- Help shape the initial culture of the founding team.
- Own technical engagement with customers and prospects.
- Encourage AI-driven workflows in other internal functions.
Benefits
- $150,000–$250,000 base salary with significant early-stage equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible, unlimited PTO policy.
- Daily in-office sponsored lunches, and dinners when working late.
- Workspace accommodations, including standing desks and core AI software.
- Opportunities for role growth and compensation expansion as the business grows.
- Investment in each team member’s long-term career ambitions.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
