Founding Applied AI Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI marketing technology company as its first senior AI hire. You will own the quality and intelligence of multi-channel marketing agents, shape the AI architecture and evaluation systems, and help build the AI team as the company grows.

What You'll Do

• Improve agent output and content quality across social channels and article writing, using evaluation systems to measure results.

• Improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance.

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

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

• Help hire and lead the AI team as the organization 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 evaluations and learning from 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.

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

• Search, ranking, or AI answer engine experience, particularly involving Google, is valuable.

• Experience owning and shipping work in a startup or small team; marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus, as are recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning.

• Strong technical fundamentals demonstrated through relevant work, research, or comparable accomplishments.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.