Founding Engineer (In-Person)

Raycaster is hiring a Founding Engineer (In-Person) in New York, NY. Full brief — comp band, interview process, and hiring team — available to Employbl members.

Location: New York, NY
Company size: 2–10
Posted: 3d ago
Via: Yc

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Founding Engineer (In-Person) · Raycaster

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Job title: Founding Engineer (In-Person)
Job location: New York, NY, US
Job listing URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/raycaster/jobs/DHo93Mb-founding-engineer-in-person
Job description: ### What you’ll do * Maintain the core: **agent orchestration + document pipelines + versioning** * Ship end-to-end: **Go backend + React UI** (you’ll touch everything) * Make it reliable: **evals, guardrails, observability** (no demo-only systems) * Turn customer pain into product fast (you’ll talk to users) ### What we care about * You’ve built and shipped real systems (Go/Rust preferred). You can own a subsystem. * You’re strong on fundamentals: **distributed systems, concurrency, performance** * You’ve shipped **AI/LLM** features in **production**, and you learn new things insanely fast and can prove it * You have **high attention to detail + high standards** * You have product taste: you notice UX/copy/states, not just code * If you don’t know something, you figure it out in hours - not weeks **Nice to have:** interest in biotech, healthtech, or any regulated industry ### Research angle (optional) We’re working on agent / domain-specific evals, new embeddings and indexing benchmarks, and may publish benchmarks / deep dives and submit to conferences / journals. If you want to help set standards for this space, there’s room. Logistics * **NYC, in-person, 5 days/week** (we build better together) * Competitive base + founder-level equity (2–10%) **Apply:** send (1) GitHub / past systems you built, and (2) one paragraph on why you’re interested in working at Raycaster to founders \[at\] raycaster.ai

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Where this role is based

New York, NY

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Raycaster headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Company size

2–10 employees

Founded

2024

Total raised

$500,000

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Funding rounds

Pre Seed$500KDec 4, 2024