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Dataleap

Generative AI-powered market research platform

Founding Engineer

Full-Time
$120k - $250k/yr+ Equity
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Software EngineeringAI Application Engineering, Full-Stack Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Ability to scope vague problems and build end-to-end without hand-holding or waiting for specifications.
  • Backend-heavy engineering capability with ability to work across the full stack.
  • Strong engineering problem-solving and code review skills.
  • Deep product sense and a focus on building for users.
  • Love of Go and ability to write clean, maintainable code.
  • Experience building AI products, ideally agentic systems or AI coding tools.
  • Experience building something from scratch, such as a startup, side project, or shipped feature, and ability to thrive in ambiguity.
Responsibilities
  • Own large parts of the product end-to-end, from user insight through production.
  • Build and improve agentic systems to increase their accuracy, reliability, and capability.
  • Work on context engineering, tool use, and agent architectures.
  • Talk to users, understand their pain points, and scope features that solve their problems.
  • Promote AI-first development using Claude Code, coding agents, and automation, and scale personal productivity.
  • Review code quickly while maintaining a high bar across the codebase.
Desired Qualifications
  • Former founder experience.
  • AI research background or experience at an AI coding startup.

About the company

Dataleap is an AI-powered market research platform for corporate strategy and management consulting teams. It offers a natural-language Copilot built on a curated, paywalled database of trusted market data from premier research firms, ensuring searches and analyses rely on verifiable sources. The platform unifies multiple data sources, can incorporate a company’s proprietary information, and provides a document matrix to run meta-studies and extract custom datasets. Its goal is to streamline market research workflows, reduce misinformation risk, and empower enterprise decisions with an auditable, centralized data toolkit that stands apart from generic AI search tools.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$130K

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • Jan 22, 2026 launch broadened use cases beyond research into sales and operations.
  • The company raised $3 million from YC and angels, including Aravind Srinivas.
  • Open hiring in San Francisco and Munich shows active expansion and customer pull.

What critics are saying

  • Dataleap's 2026 pivot from market research to AI employees confuses positioning.
  • Only six employees and five open roles signal fragile execution and founder dependency.
  • If consulting buyers reject the broader agent platform, Dataleap loses its core wedge.

What makes Dataleap unique

  • Jan Damm and Jan-Hendrik Ruettinger built Dataleap from McKinsey and Oxford experience.
  • Dataleap links answers to sources, targeting consulting workflows with curated paywalled market data.
  • Jan 22, 2026 launch introduced agentic enterprise tooling and 200+ integrations.

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