AI Engineer - Defense AI Startup - $250K + Equity

AI Engineer – Defense AI Startup – $250k +Equity A $12M-backed AI startup is building something hard: an AI-native ERP, from scratch, for defense manufacturing. Not bolting ChatGPT onto a legacy system — actually building the brain. Multi-agent orchestration, agentic workflows, RAG, evals, the real stuff. You’d join an early team (~15 people) and work on the critical path alongside the founding engineers. High trust, high ownership, immediate impact. What you’ll do Build the LLM orchestration layer using multi-agent frameworks Design agentic workflows that track state, propose actions, and complete multi-step tasks Build structured prompting systems — function-calling, memory, safety constraints Work with RAG, embeddings, and retrieval infrastructure Evaluate and integrate emerging agent frameworks What we’re looking for 3–5+ years in Python backend + production AI/LLM systems Hands‑on with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, Strands) Experience shipping AI products from prototype to production Comfortable in a small, fast-moving startup Bonus: ERP, manufacturing, or defense tech background Logistics $160K–$250K base + equity Hybrid: San Diego (3 days/week), or Bay Area/LA flying in one week per month US citizen or green card holder only (ITAR) Sound like you? Apply! Company: Benchstack Ai #J-18808-Ljbffr