Founding AI/ML Engineer

About the Role

Build the intelligence layer for an AI-powered recruiting marketplace, including the systems that match candidates with relevant roles. You will own recommendation, ranking, and retrieval capabilities from early design through production.

What You'll Do

• Design and build recommendation, ranking, and retrieval systems for candidate-role matching.

• Develop LLM-powered features and improve matching quality using measurable outcomes.

• Take product features from problem definition to production, shipping at a rapid cadence.

• Build and maintain the data pipelines and backend services that support production models.

• Work with company leadership to translate product goals into working systems.

What We're Looking For

• Two to five years of experience building and shipping end-to-end software features in production.

• Production experience with recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, or ML-powered matching.

• Experience shipping ML models or ML-powered products to users, with hands-on work in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent frameworks.

• Proficiency in TypeScript or Python and experience building production features with LLM APIs.

• Experience maintaining production data pipelines and services, ideally in a fast-moving startup environment.

• Strong computer science fundamentals; React, embeddings, vector search, Supabase, Prisma, Typesense, or workflow automation tools are helpful.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary is $130,000 to $170,000 annually, plus competitive founding-hire equity. Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. The role works in person six days per week.