Founding Engineer, Open Source
Datalab · New York Office
CHECKED 21H AGO
Applied AIonsitesenior$225k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own open-source repos with 70k+ stars used by frontier labs and Fortune 500s.
- Turn your work into demos, benchmarks, tutorials, and launches that teach developers.
- Build document AI models that reliably read PDFs and scans at scale.
What they offer
- Equity 0.15% – 0.25%
Ideal candidate
A builder-evangelist with 5+ years shipping production software who loves open source and teaching. You're energized by helping developers build and comfortable sharing your work publicly in a fast-moving early startup.
Requirements
- 5+ years building production software with meaningful open-source contributions
- Fluent in Python with focus on reproducible, well-tested code
- Track record owning code end-to-end from design to release and maintenance
- Able to create credible technical content like blogs, tutorials, demos, and docs
- Comfortable representing work publicly in writing, on camera, and in communities
- Self-directed and hands-on, comfortable with early-stage startup pace
- hiring process
- 30-min video fit call, 1.5-hour in-person architecture session, async code review, team culture-fit interviews
Lab profile
About Datalab
Trains models that read documents reliably at scale from PDFs and scans.
What they build
- Document understanding models for PDFs, scans, and files
- High-accuracy extraction at scale
Known for
- Trusted by Anthropic and Siemens
- Hundreds of customers across FAANG, healthcare, finance
- 8-figure run rate with lean team
Key facts
- Based in New York City
- 7-person team