Location: NYC (Hybrid)
Compensation: $200,000+ base + founding equity
Recruiting is broken. Coaching is reserved for executives. Career transitions are often far more difficult than they should be.
At Relevant, we're building a portfolio of products designed to help people navigate their careers with greater clarity, confidence, and support. Our products include Reva, Coach, Passport, and SuccessDNA — each tackling a different part of the career journey.
This is not another productivity app or AI wrapper.
We're building systems that help people understand opportunities, make better decisions, and navigate complex career paths. The problems we're solving sit at the intersection of search, knowledge representation, recommendations, reasoning, and human potential.
We're still early. SuccessDNA is currently in design-partner and dogfooding stages, while several other products are being built from the ground up.
We're looking for a Founding Engineer to join directly after the founder and help shape the technical foundation of the company.
You'll work across product, architecture, data, retrieval, search, and AI systems. This is a high-ownership role for someone who enjoys operating in ambiguity, making architectural decisions, and building systems from first principles.
You won't inherit a roadmap.
You'll help create it.
We're less interested in AI titles and more interested in the systems you've built.
You may currently be a:
You likely have experience with some combination of:
You should also bring:
Experience with LLM-powered products, agents, retrieval-augmented systems, or AI applications is valuable.
At the same time, we are not looking for someone whose experience is limited to prompt engineering, AI orchestration frameworks, or application-layer integrations.
The foundation we care about is strong engineering, data systems, search, and knowledge representation.
You'll have direct influence over product direction, architecture, and company strategy.
You'll work closely with the founder and leadership team.
You'll help define the technical foundations of a company that aims to meaningfully improve how people navigate their careers.
And you'll do it with the ownership, autonomy, and upside that come with being an early founding team member.
Global recruitment & staffing for fast-growing companies
We are a global recruitment agency that helps businesses scale by hiring talented tech & creative specialists.
Our Mission
To connect great companies with even greater talent.
Our Vision
To be the leading partner that clients and candidates always choose to connect with.
Our Approach
We are goals driven team, where culture is more important than formal processes.
We have built a work environment that nurtures growth and true teamwork. There is nothing as satisfying as learning and celebrating successes together!
Once you get to know us, you’ll know where this drive and energy come from.
