Founding Applied AI Engineer
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Verify skills before you apply#VERIFIEDLocationNew York, BangaloreThis is a founding applied-AI role. You'll be building our core data pipeline and intelligence layer with the founding team from 0-1. You'll be tackling our largest technical challenges across technologies.We are hiring in New York and Bangalore.### What you'll do* Design and build data pipelines that capture and turn high volumes of system activity into structured process data.* Turn raw activity streams into processes: sessionize event logs, cluster recurring sequences, and use LLMs with structured output to name, score, and conformance-check them.* Build the evaluation backbone from scratch: stand up synthetic data generation pipelines that produce ground-truth datasets, and use them to measure and improve the quality of our discovery pipeline and model outputs.* Own data quality and privacy.* Partner closely with the founders and the rest of engineering to ship features end to end.### What we're looking for* 1-4 years of experience in data engineering, AI/ML engineering, or backend work with a data focus (strong internships and projects count).* Strong in Python and/or TypeScript, comfortable in SQL, and able to build data pipelines you can trust - moving, transforming, and validating data.* Hands-on experience working with LLMs - structured output, prompting, and wrangling non-determinism - whether at work or in serious side projects.* A practical sense for evaluation: you know that "it looks right" isn't the same as "it's measurably right," and you're excited to build the data and harnesses that prove it.* Care about data privacy and handling sensitive information responsibly.* Comfort with ambiguity and a real appetite to own a hard, open-ended problem.**Nice to have*** Background in process mining, sequence / event-log analysis, or workflow analytics - a genuine differentiator for this role.* Deeper PostgreSQL: window functions, partitioning, pg\_cron, query performance.* Embeddings and vector search (pgvector) or semantic retrieval.* Familiarity with cloud infrastructure.* Any prior early-stage startup experience.* Degree in computer science or a related field.### Benefits & Perks* Equity* Medical* Flexible time off* Mac #J-18808-Ljbffr
$180k - $250k
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