Member of Technical Staff

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.

We’re hiring a Member of Technical Staff to operate as a builder–operator at the earliest stages of company creation.

This is not a traditional engineering role.

You will work at the intersection of:

• product ideation
• technical execution
• business problem solving

…and help transform ambiguous ideas into real products, prototypes, and ultimately companies.

You’ll function like a founding engineer across multiple zero-to-one environments.

1) Turn Ideas into Products

• →Take loosely defined problems and transform them into concrete product directions
• →Break down ambiguous concepts into structured technical approaches
• →Rapidly prototype and validate ideas using modern AI-augmented workflows

2) Build 0→1 Across Incubations

• →Act as an early engineering force for new startups
• →Build initial products, APIs, workflows, and prototypes that define the business
• →Help shape product direction alongside partners and founders

3) Operate Like a Founder

• →Understand business context and define what should be built—not just how
• →Evaluate tradeoffs across product, speed, and technical design
• →Adapt quickly as ideas evolve and new information emerge

4) Build in an AI-Native Way

• →Use AI tools to accelerate development, not replace thinking
• →Structure prompts, workflows, and iteration loops intentionally
• →Demonstrate strong problem framing, decomposition, and iteration style

Direct Path to Founding

• Opportunity to propose, validate, and launch new ideas
• Path to become EIR or founder within the Red Cell ecosystem

Multi-Domain Exposure

• Work across healthcare, cyber, and national security
• Gain experience across multiple business models and products

Maximum Scope Early

• Own product direction, not just implementation
• Influence what gets built and why from day one

• You create clarity from ambiguity — you define the problem before solving it
• You use AI as a true co-developer and can explain how you drive quality
• You’re energized by early-stage chaos, not slowed down by it
• You prefer building new things over maintaining systems
• You think like a founder: ownership, speed, and first-principles reasoning

• Strong technical background (software, systems, ML, or similar)
• Experience building products or systems end-to-end
• Demonstrated ability to work without clear requirements
• Comfortable with rapid iteration and changing direction
• Naturally curious about product + business problems

• Experience in early-stage startups or founder-like environments
• Interest in eventually starting or leading a company