Founding AI Engineer

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We’re Hiring: Founding AI Engineer

At SA Technologies Inc., we believe in turning career aspirations into reality. As a CMMI Level 5 and Great Place to Work® Certified global IT consulting and services company—and recognized as one of the Best Places for Women—we are committed to building an inclusive, supportive, and high-performance workplace

Job Description
 
 

1. Founding AI Engineer / Member of Technical Staff

Job Title: Founding AI Engineer / Member of Technical Staff (MTS)

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Model: Onsite / Hybrid

Job Summary

We are hiring an exceptional Founding AI Engineer / Member of Technical Staff to join an early-stage AI technology company building production-grade AI products from the ground up.

This is a highly hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys working in a fast-moving startup environment, solving ambiguous technical problems, and taking complete ownership from architecture and prototyping through production deployment.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals, backend/distributed systems expertise, and hands-on experience building production AI/LLM applications .

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own core AI product and platform capabilities from 0→1.
  
• Develop production-grade applications using Python and modern backend technologies .
  
• Build and optimize LLM-powered applications, agents, RAG/retrieval systems, and AI workflows .
  
• Design scalable APIs, services, data pipelines, and distributed/backend systems.
  
• Integrate foundation models and AI services into reliable production applications.
  
• Build evaluation, monitoring, observability, and reliability mechanisms for AI systems.
  
• Rapidly prototype new ideas and convert successful prototypes into production systems.
  
• Work closely with founders and a small engineering team on architecture and product decisions.
  
• Own projects end-to-end with limited structure or supervision.
  
• Help establish engineering standards and technical direction as the organization scales.
  

Required Qualifications

• Strong professional software engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of production systems.
  
• Excellent programming skills in Python ; experience with TypeScript, Go, Java, or C++ is beneficial.
  
• Strong backend engineering, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and system-design fundamentals.
  
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, Generative AI, RAG, agents, inference, or AI-powered applications .
  
• Experience taking complex products or systems from concept/prototype into production.
  
• Strong debugging and problem-solving abilities.
  
• Comfortable operating in an early-stage / startup / 0→1 environment .
  
• Strong Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, AI/ML, or related academic foundation.
  

Highly Preferred

• Previous founding engineer or early engineering-team experience .
  
• Experience at a high-growth technology or AI company.
  
• Experience with distributed systems and high-scale production infrastructure.
  
• LLM evaluation, retrieval, embeddings, knowledge graphs, agentic workflows, or model-serving experience.
  
• Demonstrated technical leadership without moving away from hands-on coding.
  

Why SA Technologies Inc.?

Empowering Work Environment: A Great Place to Work, especially celebrated as one of the Best Places for Women.
Excellence and Quality: A CMMI Level 5 Company, ensuring operational and service excellence.
Globally Acclaimed: A Microsoft Gold Partner and Google Partner, with over 20 years of global IT consulting and Development solutions delivery.

 
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