Founding Engineer Jobs in New York

ABOUT MERIDIAN

Meridian is building the world's first multi-agent platform that helps enterprise brands market and sell to AI.

Search is shifting from traditional search engines to AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude; systems that generate answers and increasingly take actions on behalf of users. Businesses now need to ensure they are visible and correctly represented inside these systems.

We're building the platform that enables this. The product is already being used by hundreds of customers, the core idea is validated, and the company is still small enough for your work to define its trajectory.

THE ROLE

As a Founding Engineer, you'll work directly with the founders to build the core systems that power Meridian. You'll take ownership of ambiguous, high-impact problems and turn them into reliable software that runs autonomously in production.

This is a role for engineers who want extreme ownership, fast execution, and the opportunity to shape a company from the ground up.

• Own problems end-to-end: take loosely defined business problems and drive them from idea → system design → implementation → iteration; you're responsible not just for writing code, but for defining what should be built and ensuring it works in the real world
• Design and build agents: create the internal tools and systems that allow Meridian to define, execute, and monitor complex workflows; over time, these systems will increasingly design and run workflows autonomously
• Work on real data and decision systems: build and improve the pipelines that power our platform: data ingestion and analysis, AI model orchestration, evaluation and accuracy measurement, and feedback loops that improve system performance over time
• Solve hard, practical problems: understand what people and agents are searching for across markets, identify the signals AI systems use to generate answers, and build fully autonomous workflows
• Make high-leverage technical decisions: make tradeoffs that impact the long-term trajectory of the product and company, prioritizing the actions that move the needle most toward our mission
• Shape the company: work closely with the founders and early team to influence product direction, system architecture, and engineering culture

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• You own problems: clear examples of taking a loosely defined problem and driving it to completion without step-by-step guidance; you don't wait for perfect specs
• You're a strong technical generalist: you can move across the stack and quickly learn new tools; languages and frameworks matter less than your ability to design systems and ship results
• You have exceptional attention to detail: you care deeply about the quality of what you ship and can distill an envisioned outcome into reality; we don't ship AI slop, we ship art
• You move fast: bias toward execution; you prefer shipping, learning, and improving over endless planning
• You're ambitious: this role should feel like a career accelerator
• You communicate clearly: you can communicate effectively across engineers, customers, and non-technical teammates; strong communication is essential for moving fast and making good decisions

WHAT YOU'LL GET

• Competitive salary + equity
• Health, dental, and vision
• In-person team in Manhattan with tight feedback loops and direct access to founders
• Outsized scope and ownership from day one