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title: 'Design Engineer at Eagle'
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# Design Engineer at Eagle

- **Company:** Eagle
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eagle/b5dd7b60-24d5-4053-a753-463cf7140822

## Job description

## About Eagle

We’re on a mission to radically transform the way we design and construct our built environment. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eagle acquires and transforms civil, structural, and MEP engineering firms with applied AI. We’re an AI laboratory dedicated to providing engineers with the tools they need to solve the world’s hardest infrastructure, energy, and climate problems. By arming designers with frontier technology, our ambition is to build the most valuable, talent-dense engineering firm in the United States.

The opportunity Our core thesis: 85% of what engineers do today is theoretically automatable, yet less than 5% has actually been touched by AI. That gap is the largest of any profession. Our plan is to close it by acquiring engineering firms, building purpose-built tools for their staff, and compounding that proprietary intelligence across acquisitions.

As a Design Engineer, you'll work directly with the CTO to own how that intelligence becomes something engineers actually trust and use. The hard part isn't only modeling the data—it's making non-deterministic, agentic systems legible to people who have never worked with a software company before. You own the surface where that trust is won or lost. You get a front-row seat to building a company from zero—engaging with product strategy, firm acquisitions, and architecture decisions—on a problem domain that's barely been touched by AI.

## What you'll do

- Embed with staff at engineering firms alongside the founders; watch how they actually work, then come back and design and build against what you saw
- Own the product surface end-to-end—from interaction design and prototyping through shipping the production front-end yourself
- Establish and own our design system: the components, patterns, and primitives that have to stay coherent as we compound products across acquisitions
- Define the interaction patterns for an AI-native platform—streaming and latency, human-in-the-loop review, provenance and citations, and making agent behavior transparent enough to trust
- Collaborate directly with the CTO on product direction, culture, and what we'll build next

## What we look for

- Strong design taste and the engineering chops to ship it yourself in production (React/TypeScript or equivalent)—you don't hand off to someone else to build
- Has built and maintained a design system that more than one product or team depended on
- Has real reps designing UX for AI-native products and is comfortable with the problems that don't exist in traditional software: non-determinism, streaming output, uncertainty, agentic flows, and earning user trust in machine output
- Has a deep curiosity for how things work (an organization, a workflow, a market)
- Isn't afraid to expose their ignorance and is constantly asking why
- Has the poise and communication skills to earn trust with people who've never worked with a tech company before
- Can sit with noisy, conflicting feedback from users and distill it into a clear opinion about what to build
- Is willing to get on a plane with us
- Is not above any task: up to draw the icon set, write the component, sit beside a user and watch them click, or wire up an off-the-shelf tool to test an idea fast

## Compensation

- Competitive cash compensation ($150K–$300K depending on experience)
- Founding equity, scaled to scope
- Full healthcare benefits
- In-person office in NYC

## About Eagle

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Eagle is an AI-native platform and strategic partner that acquires and scales civil, structural, and MEP engineering firms by embedding proprietary AI tools into their workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage, backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Mayank Mardia, Sohum Daftary, Thomas Shouler

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Engineering Services (AEC — Architecture, Engineering, Construction) / Applied AI
- **Target customers**: AEC firms (civil, structural, MEP engineering firms) — B2B, enterprise-focused partnership model
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Unleashing engineering for the built environment" — on a mission to flip the script by arming engineers with frontier technology instead of replacing them [eagleeng.com](https://www.eagleeng.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Eagle Platform (AI Operating System for AEC)**: A suite of proprietary AI tools built for engineering firms. Key modules include:
  - **Proposal Generation**: AI drafts 100-page proposals in hours from past work and firm standards.
  - **Opportunity Intelligence**: Combines public and private data to surface leads before RFPs drop.
  - **Relationship Mapping**: AI maps decision-makers, tracks job changes, and surfaces warm connections.
  - **Document Intelligence & Structured Knowledge Store**: Automates drafting, calculations, and documentation; integrates LLMs and multimodal models into production workflows.
- **Acquisition & Transformation Model**: Eagle acquires engineering firms and embeds its tech team to build custom tools alongside existing engineers — the firm’s brand, team, and culture stay the same.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, seed-stage startup)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding amount not publicly disclosed; backed by **Lightspeed Venture Partners** (a global VC)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead investor); Advisors include **Carl Bass** (former President & CEO of Autodesk) and **Finlay McLay** (former CEO of Consertus, former COO of Cumming)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Founded in 2025 with only 2 employees initially; LinkedIn shows 2 employees with +16.7% monthly growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eagleengtech)
  - Website traffic growing +133.6% month-over-month (2,130 monthly visits, 100% US-based) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eagleengtech)
  - Actively hiring founding technical staff (Applied AI Engineer, Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer) [careerbuilder.com](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/job/applied-ai-engineer/8601552)
  - Core thesis: 85% of what engineers do is theoretically automatable, yet less than 5% has been touched by AI — representing the largest automation gap of any profession [news.ycombinator.com](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477019)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AI-native AEC consolidation**: Eagle is building the first AI-native engineering design firm by acquiring and transforming existing firms rather than competing with them — a unique roll-up strategy with embedded tech.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founders combine structural/civil engineering backgrounds (Arup, Palantir) with AI/software development (Bloomberg, Ethic, Pivotal) and investment experience (Long Ridge, Arena).
- **Purpose-built AI for a legacy industry**: Unlike generic AI tools, Eagle builds custom spatial reasoning models, CAD file parsers, and regulatory compliance agents specifically for infrastructure engineering.
- **Advisory board strength**: Carl Bass (former Autodesk CEO) provides credibility and deep AEC industry connections.

## Strategic Focus
- **Acquire and transform**: Identify and acquire civil, structural, and MEP engineering firms, then embed Eagle's AI platform to multiply their output without changing their brand or culture.
- **Build the AI operating system for engineering**: Develop a platform that automates the 85% of grunt work (drafting, calculations, documentation, proposals) so engineers can focus on design.
- **Talent density**: Hire founding technical staff who can embed with engineering teams, understand workflows, and build production AI — aiming to become "the most valuable, talent-dense engineering firm in the United States" [careerbuilder.com](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747)
- **National infrastructure focus**: Targeting water systems, power utilities, bridges, and transportation to meet the country's generational energy, climate, and infrastructure needs.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: Work on the hardest infrastructure, energy, and climate problems in the U.S. with direct impact on the built environment.
- **Founding team access**: As a seed-stage company, early hires work directly with the founders (Mayank, Sohum, Thomas) on architecture decisions, firm acquisitions, and product strategy — building from zero.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on curiosity, deep technical work, and "getting your hands dirty" — candidates who are "not above any task" (writing web scrapers, helping users, building Windows native plugins) are valued.
- **Compensation**: Competitive cash ($150K–$300K depending on experience) + founding equity scaled to scope [careerbuilder.com](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747)
- **Location**: In-person office in **New York City** (onsite/hybrid — job postings specify NYC) [careerbuilder.com](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747)
- **Benefits**: Full healthcare benefits included [careerbuilder.com](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747)
- **Learning opportunity**: Deep exposure to AEC domain, LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, computer vision, CAD/spatial data — a rare intersection of AI and civil engineering.

## Sources
1. [eagleeng.com](https://www.eagleeng.com/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/eagleengtech](https://www.linkedin.com/company/eagleengtech)
3. [builtin.com - Applied AI Engineer job posting](https://builtin.com/job/applied-ai-engineer/8601552)
4. [careerbuilder.com - Member of Technical Staff job posting](https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/member-of-technical-staff-new-york-ny--190b018e-4ac6-4b1e-a306-fcaf2b5bc747)
5. [news.ycombinator.com - Eagle hiring post](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477019)

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