Founding Engineer

Tower Research Ventures is incubating a company that leverages modern AI to bring efficiency to the Commercial P&C Insurance brokerage space. Led by a Head of Product and advisory board that have contributed to building some of the largest software companies in the space, the incubation’s mission is to empower insurance brokers with state of the art technology to serve their clients.

Role overview

As the Founding Engineer, you will be at the helm of the technology arm of the company. This will include shaping the technical vision for the business, architecting scalable infrastructure, and supporting a growing team. As a key component of the early team, there will be meaningful opportunities to participate in the business’ value creation.

Responsibilities

• Interfacing with product leadership to translate product requirements into systems/architecture decisions
• Designing, implementing, and deploying machine learning models (especially large language models) in production
• Managing a technical product roadmap, including low level specifications of an initial Minimum Viable Product, and continuous iterations
• Ensuring reliability and efficiency of product deployments

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience in ML/backend engineering roles
• Experience or interest working with generative ML operations (prompt engineering, prompt caching, RAG, fine-tuning, etc).
• Experience developing B2B software products from the ground up, with full stack exposure
• Experience working in early stage companies
• Engineering management experience
• Strong programming skills in python
• Familiarity with Insurance (or adjacent Fintech areas) not required

Anticipated annual base salary range of $175,000 - $250,000, additional compensation in the form of meaningful equity in the business.

Benefits:

Tower’s dual offices and garden roof decks are located in TriBeCa and SoHo, neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan. While we work hard, Tower’s cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the premium the firm places on quality of life. Benefits include:

• 401(k) with company matching
• 5 weeks of paid vacation per year plus 11 paid holidays
• Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks on a daily basis
• Reimbursement for health and wellness expenses
• Free events and workshops
• Donation matching program

Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.