Founding Member of Technical Staff
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Founding Member of Technical Staff at Eagle collaborates with founders to ship initial iterations of the operating system, embedding with engineering staff, owning end-to-end problems from discovery to production, and shaping technical direction with the CTO.
About this role
About Eagle
We’re on a mission to radically transform the way we design and construct our built environment.
Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eagle acquires and transforms civil, structural, and MEP engineering firms with applied AI. We’re an AI laboratory dedicated to providing engineers with the tools they need to solve the world’s hardest infrastructure, energy, and climate problems.
By arming designers with frontier technology, our ambition is to build the most valuable, talent-dense engineering firm in the United States.
Why this role matters
Our core thesis: 85% of what engineers do today is theoretically automatable, yet less than 5% has actually been touched by AI. That gap is the largest of any profession. Our plan is to close it by acquiring engineering firms, building purpose-built tools for their staff, and compounding that proprietary intelligence across acquisitions.
As a Founding Member of Technical Staff, you'll work directly with the founders to ship the initial iterations of our operating system that will power this transformation. You get a front-row seat to building a company from zero—engaging with architecture decisions, firm acquisitions, and product strategy—on a problem domain that's barely been touched by AI.
What you'll do
Embed with staff at engineering firms alongside the founders; then come back and build against what you saw
Own problems end-to-end from problem discovery to deployment to debugging in prod
Collaborate directly with the CTO on engineering culture, technical direction, and what we’ll build next
Build and deploy the core layers of our platform: data connectors, document intelligence, and a structured knowledge store that gets richer with time
What we look for
Has a deep curiosity for how things work (e.g., an organization, a workflow, a market)
Isn’t afraid to expose their ignorance and is constantly asking why
Has the poise and communication skills to earn trust with people who've never worked with a tech company before
Can sit with noisy, conflicting feedback from users and distill it into a clear opinion about what to build
Is willing to get on a plane with us
Has experience or interest in LLMs, Agent Frameworks, RAG, browser automation, or doc parsing
Is not above any task: Up to write the web scraper, help users leverage off-the-shelf tools, or build the plugin for Windows native AEC software
Compensation
Competitive base salary ($150K–$300K depending on experience)
Meaningful early-stage equity
Full healthcare benefits
In-person office in NYC with team meals
Skills
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