Founding Applied AI Engineer

About the Role

As the first senior AI hire at an early-stage AI company, you will own the quality and intelligence of multi-channel marketing agents. You will shape the agent architecture, evaluation systems, and learning loops that help the product deliver reliable results.

What You'll Do

• Improve agent outputs and content quality across social channels and article writing, and build evaluations that make quality measurable.

• Improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance.

• Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world results and performance signals.

• Improve AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.

• Help hire and lead the AI team as it grows.

What We're Looking For

• At least 3 years of experience building production machine learning or AI systems, including recent hands-on work shipping LLM products or agents.

• Experience designing evaluation systems and using outcome signals at scale in search, ranking, recommendations, or related domains.

• Proficiency in TypeScript, including Next.js, and Python for data analysis, evaluations, and model work, with the ability to ship end to end.

• Production experience with applied AI, such as LLM reasoning, post-training, generative AI, agentic systems, search, recommendation systems, algorithms, or machine learning research.

• Experience building feedback loops and improving production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, or model strategy.

• Ownership experience in a startup or small team, plus experience with search, ranking, or AI answer engines, particularly Google.

• Experience at a leading AI lab or comparable evidence of technical achievement is valued. Marketing or go-to-market experience, recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning are relevant strengths.

Compensation & Benefits

Target annual compensation is $180,000 to $230,000 USD. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.