AI Engineer

• Frontier models are instruments you play daily — in how you build (coding agents, multi-model workflows, letting an agent draft while you direct) and in what you build (planners, classifiers, tool-calling systems).
• You come at problems with approaches nobody asked for, and you are willing to be wrong out loud in service of moving the work.
• "The model can probably do this" is a hypothesis you test with an eval, not a hope you ship on vibes.
• You prototype fast, generalize what survives contact with reality, and delete what doesn't.

• You ship in small, traceable increments, week after week; teammates can find the ticket from your branch name and the reasoning in your design doc.
• You write your thinking down — design docs before lynchpin systems, and review comments that catch what tests miss: the uncalibrated confidence score someone will read as a guarantee, the trust boundary conflated with a durability guarantee.
• Production is yours. You fix the OOM at the right layer and treat a correctness rework as finishing the job, not a "fast follow".
• You simplify your own work: deleting your days-old code because a simpler approach developed is a win, not a loss.

• Production service fundamentals: API design, data contracts, authorization boundaries, observability.
• Hands-on experience with LLM agent systems — tool-calling patterns, MCP, the Anthropic SDK, or equivalents — running in front of real users.
• Fluency in a strictly-typed codebase.
• You put safety properties in code, not in prompts — and you can say why.
• Clear written communication about tradeoffs; here, decisions live in documents and threads.
• Prior experience in and passion for early-stage startups and/or high-growth environments.

(Please note these steps may vary slightly depending on the role)

• 30-minute phone call with our recruiting team
• 30-45 minute video interview with the hiring manager
• Case study/technical screen
• Meet the team! 30-45 min 1:1 video discussion with 3-4 team members you’d work closely with in the role
• Executive chat