Job Description1. Founding AI Engineer / Member of Technical StaffJob Title: Founding AI Engineer / Member of Technical Staff (MTS)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Model: Onsite / Hybrid
Job SummaryWe are hiring an exceptional
Founding AI Engineer / Member of Technical Staff to join an early-stage AI technology company building production-grade AI products from the ground up.
This is a highly hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys working in a fast-moving startup environment, solving ambiguous technical problems, and taking complete ownership from architecture and prototyping through production deployment.
The ideal candidate combines strong
software engineering fundamentals, backend/distributed systems expertise, and hands-on experience building production AI/LLM applications.
Responsibilities- Design, build, and own core AI product and platform capabilities from 0→1.
- Develop production-grade applications using Python and modern backend technologies.
- Build and optimize LLM-powered applications, agents, RAG/retrieval systems, and AI workflows.
- Design scalable APIs, services, data pipelines, and distributed/backend systems.
- Integrate foundation models and AI services into reliable production applications.
- Build evaluation, monitoring, observability, and reliability mechanisms for AI systems.
- Rapidly prototype new ideas and convert successful prototypes into production systems.
- Work closely with founders and a small engineering team on architecture and product decisions.
- Own projects end-to-end with limited structure or supervision.
- Help establish engineering standards and technical direction as the organization scales.
Required Qualifications- Strong professional software engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of production systems.
- Excellent programming skills in Python; experience with TypeScript, Go, Java, or C++ is beneficial.
- Strong backend engineering, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and system-design fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, Generative AI, RAG, agents, inference, or AI-powered applications.
- Experience taking complex products or systems from concept/prototype into production.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving abilities.
- Comfortable operating in an early-stage / startup / 0→1 environment.
- Strong Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, AI/ML, or related academic foundation.
Highly Preferred- Previous founding engineer or early engineering-team experience.
- Experience at a high-growth technology or AI company.
- Experience with distributed systems and high-scale production infrastructure.
- LLM evaluation, retrieval, embeddings, knowledge graphs, agentic workflows, or model-serving experience.
- Demonstrated technical leadership without moving away from hands-on coding.
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