Applied AI Lead - up to $475k

Compensation: Up to $475,000 + meaningful equity Who You’ll Join: Join an early-stage AI company building the AI operating system for your company, a centralized reasoning engine that understands, learns, and acts across an entire organization. You’ll be one of the first senior leaders in a founding team, backed by $9M in seed funding, with strong early traction ($1.3M ARR in 16 weeks and an active Fortune 500 pipeline). Investors include Long Journey Ventures and Axiom Ventures. This is not an R&D project or internal tooling role. You’ll be building applied AI systems already used by high-growth startups and large enterprises for real, high-stakes decisions. What You’ll Do: Define the strategy and roadmap for Applied AI across product and customers. Build and lead a high-performing team of AI engineers and applied ML practitioners from the ground up. Own the development and deployment of the AI operating system for enterprise clients, from prototype to production. Take responsibility for reliability, evaluation, monitoring, and failure modes of enterprise AI systems. Work directly with the CEO and founding team to shape core architecture and long-term technical direction. Design and ship agentic systems that reason across tools, take action, and improve with organizational context. Who You Are: 5+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years building applied AI or ML systems. You have personally shipped AI products used by paying customers, not just demos or experiments. Strong hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval, evaluation, and production deployment. Comfortable as a hands-on leader. You can architect systems, write code, and hire the right team around you. You thrive in early-stage environments with ambiguity, speed, and high ownership. Bonus experience with enterprise SaaS, data platforms, CRMs, analytics, or deeply integrated internal tools. Why You’ll Thrive: Build the entire Applied AI function from scratch at a company positioning itself as the AI OS for work. Report directly to the CEO and have real influence over product, architecture, and company direction. Join at a true inflection point with strong revenue, enterprise demand, and a Series A on the horizon. Work on agentic AI that runs real workflows end-to-end across CRMs, analytics, finance, and internal apps. Operate in a small, senior team where your decisions materially shape the company’s trajectory. Enjoy a strong San Francisco culture, free food and transport, significant equity, and a dog-friendly office. Work authorization: At this time, we’re only able to consider candidates authorized to work in the US (US citizens, Green Card holders, or TN visa holders). #J-18808-Ljbffr Open Select