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title: 'Founding Engineering Team at Altis'
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# Founding Engineering Team at Altis

- **Company:** Altis
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $200k–$280k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/altis/ecb32c5d-57de-43a3-b7e9-c7d701ca9c37

## Job description

Founding Engineering Team

## About Altis

Altis provides independent, institutional-grade diligence research on Series A and later-stage companies for venture investors. Private investors are beginning to rely on the proprietary research, experts, and data that is only available on the Altis platform. The team pairs MBB-caliber diligence training with advanced AI to create high-quality work faster and at a lower cost than traditional methods.

## About the Role

Altis is growing their Founding Engineering team to help drive their product offerings and own different parts of the tech stack. You'll report directly to the CEO, partner with our existing engineering team on architecture and roadmap, and help build the team from 2 engineers today toward roughly 10. The biggest gap you'll be closing on day one: bringing a product mindset to our roadmap that’s deeply tied to speeding up our research processes.

New York City - in-person; 4 days a week expected.

## What You'll Do

- Help share and own the roadmap and delivery of Altis' internal research-enablement tooling - sit with the research and sourcing teams to understand their real workflows, with a goal of meaningfully cutting the time it takes them to produce a report
- Commit to delivery dates for engineering's key initiatives, hit them, or flag slippage early and clearly
- Partner with our existing engineering team on architecture decisions, including Altis's move toward direct API/MCP access for customers
- Report directly to the CEO as a technical thought partner on product and roadmap tradeoffs
- Stand up the engineering processes (planning, review, ownership) a growing team needs
- Help design and run the technical interview process as the team scales

## What You Bring

- A track record of shipping software that is an excellent product that its intended users actually adopted, not just software shipped to spec
- Comfort owning and communicating delivery timelines, including flagging risk before it becomes a surprise
- Strong communication skills with both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders, including a CEO
- Experience with AI-native, LLM- or RAG-powered products

Nice to Haves

- Experience leading and scaling engineering teams, ideally at an early-stage (seed/Series A) startup - rather than a background primarily at a large/big tech company
- Exposure to designing external API or MCP-style developer surfaces
- Comfort evaluating and evolving an existing codebase and architecture built by an early engineering team

## What You'll Get

- Competitive cash and equity compensation, commensurate with experience and scope
- A direct reporting line to the CEO and real ownership over key engineering and product decisions.
- A ground-floor seat at a fast-growing, recently-funded research company with early customer traction across venture and institutional investors
- A New York City-based team

## What We Value

We believe confident nonsense is worse than honest ambiguity. Altis operates with the same rigor and transparency in how we build our own tools as we do in the research we sell - full ownership, clear communication, and no shortcuts on the truth.

## About Altis

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Altis delivers primary research for venture capital investment decisions, combining AI-powered analysis with expert interviews to build bull and bear cases for Series A+ diligence.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, backed by Primary Venture Partners)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Ben Sun (co‑founder of Primary Venture Partners) and Chris Freeberg (former BCG)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Venture intelligence / research services (B2B)
- **Target Customers**: Venture capital firms (investment committees, partners, analysts) – B2B, enterprise
- **Mission or Purpose Statement**: “Building the shared intelligence infrastructure that venture has been missing – combining human judgment, deep research experience, and emerging AI workflows to deliver insights that matter.” (from careers page)

## Products & Services
- **Altis Research Reports**: Each report identifies the 2–4 Key Debates that determine whether a company succeeds or fails, presents formal bull and bear cases built from expert interviews (customers, competitors, former employees, domain experts), and includes underlying transcripts and source data. Designed for IC‑ready conviction in days, not weeks. Available for Series A+ companies. [altis.vc](https://www.altis.vc/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private seed stage)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Not publicly available; known investor is Primary Venture Partners (seed round). [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/altis-vc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Primary Venture Partners (co‑founder Ben Sun is a partner there). [startuply.vc](https://startuply.vc/article/altis-builds-the-bull-and-bear-case-for-the-series-a-committee-czurm4)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - LinkedIn employee count: 2 (as of mid‑2026) but careers page lists 6 open roles (including Sector Director – AI, Full‑Stack AI Engineer, Analyst, etc.), indicating aggressive scaling.
  - Monthly LinkedIn follower growth: +7.8%.
  - Web traffic growth: +6.6% monthly.
  - Published multiple research reports (ElevenLabs, Numeric, Voice AI sector) within months of launch.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Outside‑in methodology**: Does not speak to company management or previous investors; works independently to avoid bias.
- **Conflict‑free**: No investments in covered companies; no paid placement.
- **Evidence‑logged**: Every claim links to source transcripts/interviews – traceable conclusions.
- **Compounding intelligence**: Each research sprint deepens sector knowledge; next company analysis starts from a baseline, not from zero.
- **Designed for VC speed:** Combines AI with expert primary research to deliver IC‑ready reports in days.

## Strategic Focus
- Building the “diligence layer” for venture capital – trusted, independent research infrastructure.
- Expanding AI capabilities (hiring a Full‑Stack AI Engineer and Sector Lead – AI).
- Scaling coverage across sectors (enterprise AI, voice AI, fintech, etc.) and stages.
- Retaining a high‑quality, in‑office culture (NYC, 4 days/week) to foster collaboration and speed.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, high‑ownership team that values “quality, fast iteration, and being in the room.” Emphasis on curiosity, collaboration, and high standards. [careers page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/altis)
- **Work location**: On‑site in New York City (4 days per week mandatory).
- **Team**: Currently ~2 employees but actively growing; team members come from McKinsey, Google, Reka, BCG, and top VC firms.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the role offers “ownership, not a job” and mentorship from experienced operators (Chris Freeberg, Ben Sun).
- **Engineering culture**: Full‑stack AI engineer role that will shape the core product; small team building from scratch.

## Sources
1. [altis.vc](https://www.altis.vc/)
2. [careers page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/altis)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/altis-vc)
4. [startuply.vc](https://startuply.vc/article/altis-builds-the-bull-and-bear-case-for-the-series-a-committee-czurm4)

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