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Founding AI Engineer

Machine Learning EngineerData

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Quick Summary

Requirements Summary

side projects you actually ship, and readiness for the pace and commitment an early team demands Clear communication, the ability to make a complicated problem simple,

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Machine Learning EngineerData

Responsibilities

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→Building and improving AI agents that investigate and resolve IT support tickets across live customer environments
→Scaling infrastructure and distributed systems to keep pace with customer growth and reliability demands
→Shipping across a wide surface area, frontend through backend through integrations, driven by direct customer feedback
→Working alongside the founders day to day on a roadmap that moves quickly
→Optionally sitting with customers to understand their problems and shape where the product goes

Requirements

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Two to five years building software across the full stack
A track record of shipping production systems and then living with them, at a scale of roughly fifty customers or more
Practical command of LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and agent architectures
A founding-engineer disposition: side projects you actually ship, and readiness for the pace and commitment an early team demands
Clear communication, the ability to make a complicated problem simple, and decisiveness about what matters first

Nice to Have

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AI agents or tool-using LLM systems you have run in production, not just prototyped
Time at an early-stage startup, somewhere between seed and Series C
Exposure to enterprise IT, security, or identity management
A bachelor's degree in computer science or a comparable technical field
Depth in distributed systems and backend infrastructure
Comfort owning front-end product work as well as the layers beneath it

What We Offer

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✓A genuine founding-engineer seat: you shape the product and the engineering culture, not just the tickets

✓Seed funding from one of the most respected venture firms in the market, with founders out of frontier AI research and high-growth enterprise software

✓A very large and largely untouched market, with signed customers and adoption already running ahead of expectations

✓Agentic systems at the core of the product rather than AI added on top of something that already existed

✓$175K to $220K base plus competitive early-stage equity

Location: San Francisco, CA
Work policy: On-site, 5 days per week
Compensation: $175,000 to $220,000 + competitive early-stage equity
Visa sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (for example OPT or H-1B transfers)
Employment type: Full-time