# Founding Software Engineer - Company: [Rollout]() - Location: New York City - Remote: Yes - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: July 17, 2026 ## Job description # Founding Software Engineer You'll be one of our first engineering hires, working directly with our co-founders to build the product from the ground up — and to shape the architecture, engineering practices, and product direction as we grow. The work spans a modern AI product: a mobile app police officers use in the field; the AI pipeline that turns voice, photos, and notes into report-ready output; a laptop agent that fills report forms; and infrastructure secure enough for law enforcement data. This role is an apprenticeship in building and thinking like an engineer at the frontier of AI-driven development. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with our staff and senior engineers, absorb how they make architecture and product calls, and take on real ownership fast as you prove you're ready for it. ### **About This Role** * **In person, NYC.** We work together in the New York City area, with hybrid flexibility. We believe the most effective and fun way to build a company is in a room together. * **In the field.** Everyone on the team spends time with customers. Expect some travel to customer sites to watch officers use what you built, then fix what's wrong. * **AI-native.** The founding team ships with AI tools every day. We expect the same fluency in your workflow and look forward to learning from you. ### **Responsibilities** * Be our in-house scout on AI-powered software development — track new models, agents, and coding tools as they ship, and bring back what's actually worth adopting. * Analyze our development workflows for opportunities to speed up development and improve testing. * Sit with customers — in person, in Louisville and beyond — to understand how officers work, and translate that into technical decisions. * Help evolve the engineering practices and standards the next ten engineers will inherit, working closely with the senior engineers setting them. * Debug and resolve production issues, with support from the team on the gnarliest ones. * Document technical decisions and communicate tradeoffs clearly. ### **Qualifications** * Genuine fluency and excitement for modern AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) — you already build with them daily and want to stay ahead of how fast the landscape moves. * Solid CS fundamentals and a track record of shipping working software — internships, coursework, personal projects, or open source all count; production experience isn't required. * Fast learner: you can go from an unfamiliar codebase or problem to a working solution with light guidance. * Strong written and verbal communication skills. * Curiosity and initiative — you go find the answer rather than wait to be handed one. * Comfortable with ambiguity and confident asking good questions. ### **What Success Looks Like** Twelve months in: * You're the team's go-to authority on AI-assisted development — everyone ships faster because of workflows you found or built. * You can take a fuzzy problem and turn it into a shipped solution with minimal hand-holding. * You've absorbed enough architecture and product context to start making calls of your own. * Customers recognize you and trust what you've built. * You're ready for more ownership — and we're ready to give it to you. ## Apply [Apply on Rollout]() Canonical job page: