--- title: 'Founding Engineer, Raad at Montauk Capital' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-engineer-raad-montauk-capital-miami-6grtdzjk4q55' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Founding Engineer, Raad at Montauk Capital - **Company:** Montauk Capital - **Location:** Miami, FL - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2025-11-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/montauk-capital/fbd5f907-4913-4ec7-8d5e-d5d2fe59e1fa ## Job description ## FOUNDING ENGINEER (RAAD) Location: Remote / Miami Type: Full-time ## ABOUT RAAD By coordinating thousands of FAA-certified commercial pilots, Raad delivers persistent aerial coverage of U.S. critical infrastructure. Our network executes hundreds of missions each month, including thermal inspections of solar arrays, LiDAR mapping of transmission and distribution corridors, and large-scale roof and façade captures for commercial properties. The Raad Platform is the orchestration layer that sits behind it all. It ranks pilots by reputation, equipment class, and compliance status; deterministically matches missions to pilots based on airspace, payload, and proximity; automates dispatch and flight planning; streams telemetry and imagery from the edge; and performs real-time QC and metadata validation while pilots are still in the field. Raad abstracts the operational complexity of aerial data collection into software. By evolving from supervised flight operations to autonomous, dock-based missions, we’re building the infrastructure to deliver ground-truth visual data to any asset on earth an order of magnitude faster and cheaper than today’s human-driven workflows. ## The Role At Raad, we move and ship at a blistering pace. You’ll be the counterweight to the chaos that ensues - a detail-obsessed and process-driven engineer who brings stability. This person will face foundational problems in geospatial systems that nobody has solved: 1. How do we manage to ingest, QC, and stream millions of high-resolution drone camera files from hundreds of pilots who have completely heterogeneous networks, browsers, hardware, and bandwidths? 2. How do we optimize our storage and processing (creating maps from underlying JPEGs) stack, balancing cost, redundancy, and throughput? 3. And how do we expose this data cleanly and predictably through APIs, so our enterprise customers can consume it directly in their own GIS, underwriting, and asset management systems? 4. And ultimately, how do we autonomously coordinate and control thousands of drones in the air, anywhere on earth, with absolute reliability? You will: - Manage Raad’s infrastructure and networking stack - Write clean, reliable Rails code every single day. - Sniff and rip out technical debt and replace it with leaner, more performant code. - Build out our entire internal dashboard, APIs to pipe data to customers, and worker. queues for mission dispatch, data uploads, and QC. - Help define our product architecture so it scales 10× without exploding. ## WHAT YOU BRING - Deep Ruby on Rails experience. - Obsession with clarity, code hygiene, and maintainability. - Comfort in high-speed, low-spec environments. - Ability to debug production incidents without panic. - Familiarity with arcGIS, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS-adjacent infrastructure. Curiosity about drones, mapping, or geospatial data (nice to have, not required). ## WHAT YOU’LL GET - Founding-team equity and real influence on the product’s architecture. - A seat next to the CTO, shaping every technical decision. - The chance to work on code that touches the physical world, literally aircraft in motion. - Fast feedback loops, zero bureaucracy, no Jira theater. - A team that values intensity, ownership, and precision over resume lines. - Benefits, vacation If this sounds like you, send an email to teej@raad.com with A) a resume and B) if applicable, any personal projects that you are proud of. ## About Montauk Capital ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Montauk Capital is an investment platform combining a venture fund and venture studio that builds and backs technology companies powering the Electron Economy — the shift to electrified, intelligent infrastructure. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture capital / venture studio; $8.5M in funding) - **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Philip Krim (Co-Founder & CEO), Evan Caron (Co-Founder & CIO), Sharo Atmeh (Co-Founder & COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Venture capital, venture studio, energy infrastructure, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, smart transportation, climate technology. - **Target customers**: B2B – primarily early-stage founders building in energy, infrastructure, and industrial AI; portfolio companies serve enterprise and industrial clients. - **Mission / purpose**: To build and back “companies of consequence” that power the Electron Economy — the electrified, intelligent systems transforming global industries. ## Products & Services - **Venture Fund**: Invests in scalable Series A and early‑Series B software and AI‑focused businesses aligned with the Electron Economy. - **Venture Studio**: Launches new companies from scratch in high‑conviction white spaces (e.g., stealth companies in agentic CAD, edge AI, distributed water infrastructure). - **Portfolio companies** (examples): - **OneGC** – legal services for the energy transition. - **Mantis Space** – first space‑based power distribution network. - **Adaptive** – commercial/professional insurance enabled by AI. - **Raad** – drone‑based geospatial intelligence for environmental services. - **GridFree AI** – AI‑powered ERP for large industrials and data centers. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private firm). - **Key Financial Metric**: Total funding of **$8.5M** (venture round led by Amplo in March 2024). - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Amplo (lead investor). Founders bring deep ties from Riverstone Private Equity, Alyeska Investment Group, and other energy/infrastructure institutions. - **Growth Signals**: - Employees grew **+6.2% YoY** to 14 people (as of mid‑2025) with **10 active job postings** (+25% quarterly). - Actively seeking new investments and spinning up multiple stealth companies. - Strong annual LinkedIn follower growth **+213.5%** (4,496 followers). ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep domain expertise**: Founders have 20+ years in energy investing, capital markets, and climate tech (Riverstone, Alyeska, ClearTrace, HGP Storage). - **Integrated venture‑studio model**: Combines capital with hands‑on company‑building, reducing time‑to‑market for founders. - **Focus on the Electron Economy**: Captures the generational shift to electrified, intelligent infrastructure — a thesis that spans energy, AI, and industry. - **Strategic partnerships**: Co‑develops with notable names (e.g., Martha Stewart for AI home intelligence) and leverages capital‑markets experience for structuring innovative deals. ## Strategic Focus - **Electron Economy as core thesis**: Investing across the full stack — from energy generation/storage to AI‑enabled industrial software. - **Scaling the venture portfolio**: Targeting Series A and B software and AI companies; meanwhile the studio will continue launching ventures in high‑conviction white spaces. - **Expanding team**: Hiring for critical leadership and technical roles across stealth portfolio companies (e.g., Head of Infrastructure, Head of Inference, Founding Engineers). - **Sustainability & resilience**: Emphasis on energy abundance, adaptability, and resource efficiency. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Hands‑on, founder‑focused environment where team members work directly with experienced operators and investors. Described as a “trustworthy springboard” for building durable companies. - **Remote / hybrid / office**: Offers remote, hybrid, and in‑office roles; the HQ is in New York City (66 Hudson Boulevard). - **Notable perks / engineering culture**: Opportunities to become a co‑founder or early executive at a stealth venture backed by deep industry expertise. Strong emphasis on technical depth (AI, infrastructure, energy systems) and ownership. - **Growth trajectory**: Small, growing team (14 employees) with clear expansion plans — allows for outsized impact and career development. ## Sources 1. [montaukcap.com](https://montaukcap.com) 2. [montaukcap.com/about](https://montaukcap.com/about) 3. [linkedin.com/company/montauk-capital](https://www.linkedin.com/company/montauk-capital) 4. [builtin.com/company/montauk-capital](https://builtin.com/company/montauk-capital) 5. 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