Founding Engineer

EQL Tech (sales & engineering talent)

Founding Engineer building the technical platform for PhormAI’s health intelligence business. Responsible for data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and application layers.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLGRPCKafkaKubernetesPostgresPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

- **Data pipelines:** Build the pipelines that ingest, process, and transform data for the models.
- **Cloud infrastructure:** Stand up and operate compute, storage, networking, and deployment from scratch.
- **Orchestration:** Build the layer connecting ingestion, training, inference, evaluation, and serving.
- **Operational foundations:** Establish CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and alerting from the ground up.
- **Application layer:** Contribute to APIs, services, and user-facing surfaces on top of the platform.
- **Technical strategy:** Make foundational architectural decisions in direct partnership with the founders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

- **Python and SQL fundamentals** that are genuinely strong, not just familiar.
- **Production data pipelines** — hands-on experience with Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar.
- **Cloud proficiency** — AWS, GCP, or Azure, including provisioning, IAM, and networking.
- **Containers & orchestration** — Docker and Kubernetes (or a managed equivalent).
- **Infrastructure-as-code** — Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK.
- **Backend API design** — REST, GraphQL, or gRPC, with working knowledge of auth.
- **Relational database design** — Postgres or similar, including query optimization.
- **AI developer tooling** — proficient with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar.
- **Cross-stack debugging** — a track record of operating across the stack and untangling complex systems.
- **Engineering judgment** — sound instincts on trade-offs, not just technical breadth.
**Nice to have:** real-time streaming systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Kinesis, Flink); open-source contributions; experience with health or clinical data; full-stack product experience shipping user-facing web applications.

Benefits

Comp & perks

- **Founding equity** — meaningful ownership of the technical roadmap.
- **Competitive base salary.**
- **Small, high-trust team** — your work directly shapes the product.
- **Build it right from day one** — no legacy debt to inherit.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonSQLAirflowDagsterPrefectAWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetes

Soft Skills

engineering judgmentcross-stack debugging