AI Engineer

a16z speedrun

$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in machine learning or AI engineering
  • Proven track record of deploying ML solutions used by real users
  • Strong technical skills across the full ML stack
  • Ability to adopt practical solutions over complex ones
  • Experience managing end-to-end systems independently

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the machine learning infrastructure and data pipelines
  • Deploy AI features into production regularly and iterate based on user feedback
  • Enhance evaluation frameworks to measure product improvement effectively
  • Stay updated with the latest AI research and implement useful innovations

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity stake
  • Collaborative work environment with founders
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI solutions
  • Full ownership of projects from design to deployment
Full Job Description
The Role

We're hiring an AI engineer to own the AI systems at the heart of the product. You'll work directly with the founders and own the full loop: data, training, evaluations, and shipping into production.

What You'll Do
  • Build and own the ML stack-data pipelines, infrastructure, agent optimization, evaluations, tuning
  • Ship AI features into production constantly and iterate against real usage
  • Improve the evaluation harnesses that tell us whether the product is actually getting better
  • Track the research frontier and apply it pragmatically-novelty only where it wins


What We're Looking For
  • Evidence you've shipped ML that real users touched-in production, research, or serious projects
  • Strong fundamentals across the stack, not just notebooks
  • Pragmatism: you pick the boring approach that works over the clever one that might
  • Comfort owning systems end to end with no ML team behind you


Compensation & Equity

Early-stage compensation: a meaningful equity stake plus salary. Specifics depend on experience and location-we're happy to talk through the details early in the process.

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