Founding AI Engineer
Ai ml · Posted 17 days ago
You'll own the AI layer of the product — the models, the pipelines, and the evals that decide whether what we ship actually works for merchants. This is not a research seat. You'll be in production code, shipping to real customers, and you'll be the person the rest of the team asks when something model-shaped breaks.
- Way of working
- On site
- Location
- san_francisco
- Pay range
- $200,000 to $400,000
- Level
- Mid
- Experience
- 2 to 4 years
- Type
- Full time
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered for this role
- The company
- under 20 people
Skills that matter here
What you would be doing
- Own the end-to-end AI systems: prompting, retrieval, tool use, agent orchestration, fine-tuning where it earns its keep
- Build the eval harness before the feature — we don't ship model changes on vibes
- Get latency and cost to numbers that work at merchant scale, not demo scale
- Take an ambiguous product problem and decide whether it's a model problem, a data problem, or a UX problem — then fix it
- Ship to production weekly and watch what happens in the wild
The full description
You'll own the AI layer of the product — the models, the pipelines, and the evals that decide whether what we ship actually works for merchants. This is not a research seat. You'll be in production code, shipping to real customers, and you'll be the person the rest of the team asks when something model-shaped breaks.
You're one of the first engineers here, so the architecture decisions you make in month one are the ones we live with for years.
What you'll do
- Own the end-to-end AI systems: prompting, retrieval, tool use, agent orchestration, fine-tuning where it earns its keep
- Build the eval harness before the feature — we don't ship model changes on vibes
- Get latency and cost to numbers that work at merchant scale, not demo scale
- Take an ambiguous product problem and decide whether it's a model problem, a data problem, or a UX problem — then fix it
- Ship to production weekly and watch what happens in the wild
Interested in this one?
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