AI/ML Engineer

Location: San Francisco CA (New York NY available for senior candidates)
Company Stage of Funding: Series A AI Company ($55M Raised)
Office Type: Hybrid (3 Days Per Week In-Office)
Salary: $200000$300000 Competitive Equity

Company Description

Were representing one of the fastest-growing applied AI companies in the market building and deploying AI systems that solve critical problems for governments healthcare organizations energy companies and Fortune 500 enterprises. Founded in 2024 the company has already grown to approximately 140 employees surpassed $20 million in revenue and raised a $55 million Series A from world-class investors and operators.

Led by founders and investors with backgrounds spanning some of the most influential technology companies the team focuses on turning cutting-edge AI research into production-ready systems that create measurable real-world impact. This is an opportunity to join a high-growth company at the forefront of deploying AI at national and enterprise scale.

What You Will Do

• Design build and deploy AI-powered applications that solve real-world problems across healthcare government energy and enterprise environments.
• Develop and productionize LLMs AI agents retrieval systems and reasoning workflows that automate complex manual processes.
• Build scalable data pipelines and machine learning systems that support high-performance production applications.
• Define evaluation frameworks metrics and testing methodologies that ensure AI systems deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Optimize model performance reliability latency and operational efficiency across deployed systems.
• Work directly with customers government stakeholders and enterprise partners to understand requirements and deliver impactful solutions.
• Translate research advances into practical production systems that solve customer problems at scale.
• Collaborate closely with engineers researchers product teams and leadership on high-priority initiatives.
• Contribute across the full product lifecycle from problem definition and system design through deployment and monitoring.
• Help shape technical standards and engineering practices within a rapidly growing AI organization.

Ideal Background

• 310 years of software engineering machine learning engineering or applied AI experience.
• Strong Python programming skills with experience building and maintaining production applications.
• Proven experience deploying AI LLM RAG or agent-based systems in production environments.
• Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals and model evaluation methodologies.
• Experience with frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow or JAX.
• Demonstrated ability to connect technical work to measurable business or customer outcomes.
• Experience working cross-functionally with product business or customer stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Preferred

• Experience at high-growth AI startups or startup-like environments within larger organizations.
• Founding engineer startup founder or early-stage employee experience.
• Background at companies such as Glean Harvey Cognition Runway Cohere Adept Databricks Perplexity Hugging Face Anyscale Replit Stripe Airbnb DoorDash or similar organizations.
• Experience building AI agents reasoning systems retrieval architectures or enterprise AI products.
• Familiarity with modern ML evaluation frameworks and experimentation methodologies.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers or government organizations.
• Strong startup mindset with the ability to move quickly and operate with high ownership.
• Interest in applying AI to large-scale societal and operational challenges.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $200000$300000.
• Competitive equity package.
• Relocation assistance available.
• Hybrid work environment with offices in San Francisco and New York.
• H-1B transfer sponsorship and green card support available.
• Opportunity to work on AI deployments with governments healthcare systems and Fortune 500 enterprises.
• Significant ownership and visibility within a rapidly growing organization.
• Direct collaboration with experienced founders researchers and engineers.
• Exposure to cutting-edge developments in LLMs AI agents reasoning systems and applied machine learning.
• Join a company experiencing exceptional growth with substantial opportunities for advancement and impact.