Founding Applied AI Engineer

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.