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38 startups hiring founding, AI and full-stack engineers

38 startups hiring AI/ML, full-stack, frontend, backend engineering roles — 17 Oct 2026

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Every week a handful of early‑stage teams are looking for engineers who want to shape products that are already moving at scale—from AI‑driven energy‑grid simulators in New York to screen‑free phones for kids in Seattle. This list captures the most concrete hiring needs across 38 startups, ranging from full‑stack and frontend roles to senior and founding engineering positions, so you can find a match that aligns with the problem you care about most.

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  • Skyforge Industries

    Engineering

    robots to assemble the next generation of space infrastructure

  • IntSense

    Engineering

    integrate voice, vision and context into robot behavior

  • RemoteYeah

    Engineering

    • CZ

    Remote job alert! Secure IQ Services needs a Web Developer (Remote). 🏢 Employment type: Full-time, 📍Remote locations: Asia, Oceania, Australia, India, Pakista

  • CareFrame

    Full-stack Developer | Co-founder

    • Italy
    • Remote

    CareFrame, a small Italian startup of 2–10 people, is hiring a full‑stack developer and a co‑founder.

  • Parisi Labs

    Founding Engineer

    • New York, NY
    • Hybrid

    By weaving together power‑market data, asset telemetry and weather feeds, Parisi Labs lets operators simulate how the entire energy grid will respond to different decisions. Their flagship offering, Metis, is a suite of AI‑driven world models that capture the physics of complex infrastructure, while the live explorer Ask The Grid puts those models into an interactive interface for scenario planning. The small New York‑based team (2‑10 people) is looking for a founding engineer to help expand this research‑to‑product pipeline.

  • JustBacked

    Founding Software Engineer

    • San Francisco, CA
    • On-site

    Startups fresh off a funding round need a way to surface their new hiring plans, and JustBacked aggregates every open role from venture‑backed companies that closed a round in the past six months—about 19,000 jobs at roughly 900 startups—by pulling directly from each firm’s hiring system and tagging each listing with round size, investors and stage. The platform also offers AI‑enabled search and a paid membership that unlocks same‑day alerts. They are looking for a founding software engineer in San Francisco to help build out the product.

  • BOND

    Backend Engineer

    • Greater Sankt Polten
    • Hybrid

    European SMEs face a labyrinth of over a thousand procurement portals and dozens of languages, making it hard to find relevant public contracts. BOND’s AI platform streamlines that process with tender.match, which automatically surfaces suitable tenders and highlights competency gaps, and company.match, which flips the search by matching supplier needs to a database of more than 28 million firms. The team of 2‑10 in Greater Sankt Polten is looking for a Backend Engineer.

  • Parkade

    Staff Front End Software Engineer

    • United States
    • Remote

    Modern multi‑family buildings and office complexes are still wrestling with paper‑based permits and under‑utilized spots, so Parkade built a digital parking‑management platform that lets managers lease spaces through a simple app and lets long‑term lessees reshare vacant spots, boosting capacity and reliability. The small team of 2‑10 engineers is adding a Staff Front‑End Software Engineer in the United States to help evolve the user‑facing experience.

  • Besimple AI

    RL Environment Engineer (Full-time, Part-time, or Contract)

    • San Mateo, CA
    • Hybrid

    Fine‑tuning language models stalls without a steady stream of high‑quality, human‑validated data, and hallucinations keep slipping through. Besimple AI tackles that by offering a cross‑modal data flywheel that lets AI teams continuously collect, label, and evaluate text, image, audio and other inputs in a human‑in‑the‑loop loop. The small San Mateo team (2‑10 people) is looking for an RL Environment Engineer, available full‑time, part‑time or on contract.

  • Automate Flow

    Engineering

    𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫.

  • Station

    Engineering

    AI-powered products

  • E-Plato

    Engineering

    • IT

    Every new customer = 🎉 for 5 minutes.

  • Flux

    Engineering

    AI-powered hardware security platform

  • Ozmati

    Engineering

    • NG

    We’re Hiring — Entry-Level Tech Roles

  • Kablux

    Engineering

    • NG

    smooth, reliable ride-hailing experience

  • Work Daftar

    Engineering

    Looking for a shopify developer

  • Phaneron

    Engineering

    • US

    Software got its autonomous engineers first. The physical world is next.

  • Folyo

    Engineering

    • US

    Secure reporting portal where about 140 companies submit and certify monthly data, with anomaly detection and admin reporting

  • Revilo

    Engineering

    • SG

    New Search - Founding Engineer

Early team

  • Unknown company

    Engineering

    • GB

    two live marketplace apps for resellers and sellers

  • Survey Guard

    Engineering

    • US

    🚨 Detroit, I’m looking for a Founding Engineer! 👀

  • ANT-TECH ASIA

    Engineering

    • FR

    🚀 We’re Hiring: Founding Engineer

  • Ant-Tech Recruitment

    Engineering

    • FR

    🚀 We’re Hiring: Founding Engineer

  • Myrspoven

    Software Engineer

    • Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
    • Hybrid

    By automating real‑time energy consumption, Myrspoven’s AI platform lets commercial property owners and facility managers cut utility bills while hitting ESG targets, already optimizing over 2.5 M m² across a thousand buildings. The Stockholm‑based team of 11‑50 engineers is adding a Software Engineer to deepen the platform’s intelligent automation.

  • Gallatin AI, Inc.

    Senior Frontend Engineer

    • New York, NY
    • On-site

    Today's defense supply chains need real‑time visibility from the battlefield to the depot, and Gallatin’s platform stitches together tactical, operational and strategic data to surface actionable logistics insights across first, middle and last‑mile movements. The New York‑based team of 11‑50 engineers is adding a Senior Frontend Engineer to help bring those insights to life.

  • Tin Can

    Software Engineer, Core Product

    • Seattle, WA
    • On-site

    A modern take on the classic landline, Tin Can lets kids aged 4‑13 call friends and family over Wi‑Fi without the distractions of a smartphone—no browser, app store, camera or spam, just voice plus safety features like emergency calling and quiet hours. The Seattle‑based team of 11‑50 is expanding its core product and is looking for software engineers to help build the next generation of this screen‑free phone.

  • hussh 🤫

    Founding ML Engineer, Applied AI, Full Stack Engineer

    • Seattle, WA
    • Remote

    A private‑AI platform that lets individuals and businesses run their own personal superintelligence agents—like “One Agent,” which securely manages documents, email and calendars, and “One Puppy,” a home‑based supercomputer that powers those assistants without ever leaving the user’s roof—addresses the growing demand for truly personal, consent‑driven AI. hussh, a Seattle‑based team of 11‑50 creators, is expanding its core product group and is looking for a Founding ML Engineer, an Applied AI specialist, and a Full‑Stack Engineer to help bring its private agents and low‑cost supercomputing hardware to market.

  • SETCCE

    Java Backend Developer (Mid–Senior | m/ž)

    • Ig, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • On-site

    Businesses that need to turn paper‑based contracts, invoices and records into legally binding digital flows rely on SETCCE’s e‑signing, invoicing and archiving platform, which blends strong security, interoperability and compliance with EU and national regulations for sectors ranging from telecom to government. The Ljubljana team of 11‑50 engineers is looking for a mid‑senior Java Backend Developer to help extend those high‑trust services.

  • MeeBoss

    Machine Learning Engineer

    • Mountain View, CA
    • On-site

    Early‑stage hiring still feels like shouting into a void, so MeeBoss has built a job‑matching and direct‑chat platform that pairs candidates and companies with personalized recommendations and two‑way conversations, cutting through the noise and speeding up assessments. The 11‑to‑50‑person team in Mountain View is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to sharpen the matching algorithms and power the real‑time chat experience.

  • Repisodic, A Trella Health Solution

    Senior Software Engineer

    • Philadelphia, PA
    • Hybrid

    Modernizing the hospital‑to‑post‑acute transition, Repisodic embeds an EHR‑integrated discharge automation platform into care teams’ daily workflows, giving case managers real‑time tools to coordinate referrals, share personalized discharge information, and align decisions with provider quality and payer data. The solution has already helped health systems shave inpatient length of stay while boosting referrals to high‑quality post‑acute partners. They are looking for a senior software engineer to join their 11‑to‑50‑person team in Philadelphia.

  • Edra

    AI Engineer (London)

    • London, England, United Kingdom
    • On-site

    Businesses spend countless hours codifying tacit workflows that live in people’s heads, stale docs, and ticket logs; Edra’s AI agents reverse‑engineer those processes from existing systems and turn them into structured, white‑box instructions that can be executed autonomously. The London team of 11‑50 is looking for an AI Engineer to help advance this automation platform.

  • London Web Design Ltd

    Engineering

    • GB

    modern responsive website

  • Sheena Parsons

    Engineering

    Now Hiring: Mobile App Developer (Remote)

  • Coding Professors

    Engineering

    Front-End Developer

  • Launch n Ads CA

    Engineering

    • CA

    We’re Hiring! Join Our Growing Team!

  • HR Kailash Ahir

    Engineering

    mobile applications

Scaling up

  • InfoSum

    Golang Software Engineer

    • Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom
    • Hybrid

    Companies need to collaborate on customer data without exposing it, and InfoSum’s patented “non‑movement of data” clean‑room platform lets multiple parties combine insights while keeping raw records private. The Basingstoke team, part of a 51‑200‑person organization, is looking for a Golang Software Engineer to help build out that secure data‑exchange layer.

  • Flyte Solutions Ltd.

    Engineering

    • BD

    📱 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐋𝐭𝐝. 𝐢𝐬 𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 | 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐏𝐏 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒

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