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Remote founding engineer jobs are open across the U.S. in software, fintech, AI infrastructure, and developer tooling, at remote-first startups and distributed product teams building from zero to one. Employers hiring remotely right now include SentiLink, TRANSFORM AI, and Clients Blackbox. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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At Hire With Jarvis, we help organizations of all sizes hire the right people, in the right seats, at the right time.
We are partnering with an innovative, fast-growing technology company that is transforming the construction industry through AI-powered software. They are building category-defining solutions that help construction teams identify costly design issues before they impact projects, saving time, reducing risk, and preventing expensive delays.
They are now looking for a Founding Customer Growth Manager to join their team in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage company with strong product-market fit, impressive growth, and direct exposure to executive leadership.
If you understand the realities of construction, thrive in customer-facing roles, and enjoy helping clients unlock measurable value through technology, this could be the perfect next step.
About the Role
As the Founding Customer Growth Manager, you will own customer relationships from pilot kickoff through long-term adoption and expansion. You will serve as a strategic partner to customers, helping them maximize ROI while identifying opportunities to grow accounts.
This is a highly visible role reporting directly to the CEO, offering the chance to influence product direction, customer strategy, and company growth.
You will work closely with customers, product teams, engineering, and leadership to ensure successful deployments and exceptional customer outcomes.
What You’ll Do
- Lead customer engagements from onboarding through enterprise-wide adoption
- Act as a trusted advisor to project teams, preconstruction leaders, and executives
- Drive customer success by ensuring measurable business outcomes and ROI
- Identify account expansion opportunities and partner with sales to grow strategic relationships
- Facilitate customer trainings, workshops, business reviews, and key stakeholder meetings
- Gather customer feedback and translate it into actionable product insights
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and AI teams to improve customer experience
- Travel to customer offices and project sites across North America
- Support the creation of case studies, testimonials, and customer success stories
What We’re Looking For
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience working for a general contractor in preconstruction or project management
- Deep understanding of:
- Construction drawings
- Coordination workflows
- RFIs
- Change orders
- Project delivery challenges
- Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to influence and drive customer accountability
- Commercial mindset with exposure to sales, business development, or account growth
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong curiosity about AI, emerging technology, and problem-solving
- Comfortable traveling at least once per month
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in construction technology (ConTech) or enterprise SaaS
- Background in customer success, solutions engineering, or account management
- Exposure to AI, machine learning, or automation
- Experience in architecture, engineering, real estate development, or building engineering
Why Join?
This is more than just another customer success role.
You will help shape a new category in construction technology while working alongside high-caliber founders and engineers building cutting-edge AI solutions.
This opportunity offers:
- Significant ownership in a high-growth startup
- Direct access to executive leadership and decision-making
- The ability to shape customer strategy and product evolution
- Meaningful work impacting major construction projects such as hospitals, housing developments, data centers, and commercial towers
If you want to be at the intersection of construction, AI, and customer growth, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.
Compensation & Benefits
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
- Work Setup: Hybrid / Travel required across North America
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Compensation: $110,000 – $130,000 OTE
- Additional Benefits:
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Early-stage equity
- Performance-based upside
- Career growth in a rapidly scaling company
Ready to help shape the future of construction through AI? Apply now or reach out to the Hire With Jarvis team to learn more.
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Who's Hiring
- SentiLink6
- TRANSFORM AI6T
- Clients Blackbox4C
- Creative Market3
- Doit International Usa2
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software8
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote founding engineer jobs.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with full-stack or backend depth
- Demonstrated ability to ship production systems with minimal oversight or team support
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or Rust
- Experience designing and owning cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Comfort operating across the stack including APIs, databases, and frontend surfaces
- Prior experience at a startup, as a technical co-founder, or in a seed- to early-stage environment
Tips for Your Remote Founding Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote founding engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly. Early applicants on high-signal roles get more attention at small startups where the founding team reviews every application.
Show your async communication skills upfront
Remote founding engineer hiring screens heavily for written clarity. Write your cover note the way you'd write a technical spec: concise, structured, and free of filler. Founders reading applications at distributed startups are already deciding whether they'd trust your Slack messages.
Build a public record of shipping
A live GitHub history, a deployed side project, or documented open-source contributions tells remote employers you can execute without oversight. Remote-first startups looking for a founding engineer want proof you've taken something from zero to working on your own.
Prepare for distributed-team interview formats
Remote founding engineer interviews often run entirely async or across time zones, with take-home technical problems instead of whiteboard sessions. Practice writing up your architectural decisions in long-form, since founders will evaluate your judgment through your written reasoning as much as your code.
Target remote-first companies at the right stage
Founding engineer roles exist almost exclusively at seed and Series A companies that are still defining their stack. Focus your search on startups that were built remote from day one, since they have the operating model and tooling to onboard a founding engineer who isn't in the office.
Remote Founding Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote founding engineer job?
Remote founding engineer roles go to candidates who can operate with very little oversight from day one. Remote-first startups screen hard for async written communication, because most of your collaboration happens in GitHub pull requests, Notion docs, and Slack threads rather than in meetings. Strong candidates show a history of shipping features end-to-end, comfort owning ambiguous problems, and a portfolio or GitHub history that proves they can build without hand-holding.
Which companies hire remote founding engineers?
Companies hiring remote founding engineers right now include SentiLink, TRANSFORM AI, and Clients Blackbox, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Most are remote-first startups and early-stage distributed teams across software, fintech, and AI who need engineers willing to own entire product areas from day one.
Can you get a remote founding engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote founding engineer roles are among the harder entry points because you're expected to work independently from your first week, with no senior engineer sitting next to you. Early-stage remote startups occasionally hire ambitious builders who can show a shipped side project, open-source contributions, or a technical prototype that demonstrates product thinking. A public GitHub history and a clear story about what you built and why will open more doors than a resume alone.
Do you need a degree for remote founding engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote-first startups hiring founding engineers care far more about what you've shipped than where you studied. A strong portfolio, meaningful open-source contributions, or a product you took from idea to users consistently outweighs a computer science degree in early-stage hiring. Some companies do list a degree as preferred, but candidates who can demonstrate real technical judgment and ownership rarely get screened out on credentials alone.
Which industries hire the most remote founding engineers?
Most remote founding engineer openings sit in Technology & Software, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Those sectors lean on distributed teams because their products are digital and their engineering organizations were built remote-first from the start.
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