Full-Time

Founding Engineer

Dataleap

Dataleap

1-10 employees

Generative AI-powered market research platform

Compensation Overview

$120k - $250k/yr

+ Equity

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (2)
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Required Skills
TypeScript
Go
Web Development

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Requirements
  • Build and improve agentic systems, including their accuracy, reliability, and capabilities.
  • Work on context engineering, tool use, and agent architectures.
  • Use AI-first development practices including Claude Code, coding agents, and automation.
  • Have strong product sense and build for users.
  • Have deep experience with Go and clean, maintainable backend code, with ability to work on frontend development when needed.
  • Have built AI products, ideally agentic systems or AI coding tools.
  • Have built something from scratch, such as a startup, side project, or shipped feature.
  • Operate effectively in ambiguity without requiring detailed specifications or product-manager direction.
Responsibilities
  • Own large parts of the product end-to-end, from user insight through production.
  • Talk to users, understand their pain points, and scope features that solve their problems.
  • Review code quickly while maintaining a high quality bar across the codebase.
Desired Qualifications
  • Former founder experience.
  • AI research background or experience at an AI coding startup.

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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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • YC and angels backed Dataleap's $3M seed, extending runway into 2026.
  • The July 2026 website says it has 'thousands of agents deployed' and strong demand.
  • Energy and consulting workflows need verifiable sources, matching Dataleap's strongest wedge.

What critics are saying

  • Dataleap's 2026 pivot from market research to 'AI employees' dilutes product clarity.
  • Incumbents like Perplexity, Microsoft, and Glean can bundle search and agents faster.
  • If enterprise adoption stalls, a tiny team and narrow brand can collapse before 2027.

What makes Dataleap unique

  • Dataleap combines curated paid research with natural-language search, reducing hallucinated outputs.
  • The company already serves BCG, Siemens Energy, and Uniper, proving enterprise trust.
  • Founder Jan Damm brings Google Search and McKinsey experience; Jan-Hendrik Ruettinger brings Oxford AI research.

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