As a Founding Product Engineer, you will build scalable full-stack systems, integrate AI/ML solutions, design data architectures, and directly influence product strategies.
Clipbook is on a mission to reinvent how leaders listen to and engage with the entirety of the world’s information. We’re building a platform that ingests, understands, and surfaces insights and actions from the entire universe of traditional, broadcast, and social media--at scale, across text, audio, and video, and in real time. We’re profitable, growing fast, and already powering decision-making for hundreds of organizations including state and city governments, premier PR organizations, Fortune 500 companies, and more.
With previous experiences as leadership team members and founders of startups backed by top VCs including Sequoia, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Coatue, and NFX, Clipbook’s founding team is backed by Mark Cuban and previously cut their teeth at BCG, Bain, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the White House, and U.S House & Senate.
Why Join Us as a Founding Engineer:
- Shape the Future: You’ll be one of the very first engineers, owning core architecture and product decisions that will define Clipbook for years to come.
- Direct Customer Impact: Build and ship features used by 200+ customers, with instant feedback and visible impact.
- Technical Challenge: Tackle the hardest problems in AI, semantic search, and large-scale data engineering-across all media modalities.
- High Autonomy: No bureaucracy. You’ll have a blank canvas, massive influence, and a direct line to both customers and founders.
- Career-Defining Opportunity: This is a rare chance to build a category-defining product and company from the ground up, with outsized equity and leadership potential.
What You'll Do:
- Architect & Build: Design and deliver robust, scalable systems across the stack (TypeScript, React, Python, Node, SQL/NoSQL). Own end-to-end features from concept to deployment.
- AI/ML Integration: Productionize LLMs and classical ML models for real-world, high-uptime applications. Leverage the latest in generative AI tooling and frameworks.
- Data Engineering: Build pipelines and infrastructure for ingesting, normalizing, and querying massive, multi-modal datasets.
- Technical Leadership: Set engineering standards, mentor future hires, and drive best practices in code quality, testing, and deployment.
- Customer Collaboration: Work directly with users to understand pain points, iterate quickly, and deliver solutions that matter.
What We're Looking For:
- 3-5+ years building and scaling full stack across front-end, back-end, and databases.
- Genuine excitement and ability to build quickly & ship fast
- Hands-on experience shipping AI/ML-powered features in production.
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD.
- Proven ability to design and optimize data architectures for performance and cost.
- Strong product sense and bias for action-comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.
- Experience in early-stage startups or as a technical founder is a huge plus.
Bonus Points:
- Experience with LLM fine-tuning, RAG, or RLHF pipelines.
- Familiarity with web scraping frameworks (Playwright, Puppeteer) and different types of API integrations (REST, GraphQL).
- Comfortable with asynchronous workflows, rate-limiting, and distributed systems.
- Work experience as a founder or founding engineer at early stage startups
What You'll Get
- Compensation: $150–$200k salary, high-upside equity, and full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k, unlimited PTO).
- Ownership: Direct influence on product and company strategy.
- Growth: Opportunity to build and lead a world-class engineering team as we scale.
- Culture: High trust, low ego, rapid iteration, and a relentless focus on solving real customer problems.
- Mission: Join a team passionate about building tools that empower leaders to make sense of the world’s information chaos.
Clipbook will be a category-defining company with very strong product-market fit. We’ve signed some of the top customers in the world in this segment. Our core offering is used by several thousand users every day across 200+ organizations - having a consistent & daily impact on the most prominent leaders in the country.
We have a world-class team that is a smart, hard-working, and resourceful team - and most of all, who is passionate about our success and excited for the future. Our team has come from leading companies & orgs, including BCG, the White House, and U.S House & Senate. Team members have previously held leadership positions backed by top VCs including Sequoia, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Coatue, and NFX.
The opportunity to work as the day-to-day, hour-to-hour right hand to the CEO of a venture-backed & rapidly growing company.
We are a profitable- and rapidly growing startup with commercial rigor at our core.
As the company’s founding engineer, you will have the opportunity to make a high-leverage impact in an early-stage, venture-backed company at a critical stage of execution.
A fun, jet-fuel-driven culture of nimble execution and innovation.
Top Skills
AI
AWS
Ci/Cd
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Ml
Node.js
NoSQL
Python
React
SQL
Typescript
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