Founding Applied AI Engineer

Salary: $180,000 - 230,000 per year Requirements:

• At least 3 years of experience building production machine learning or AI systems, including recent hands-on experience shipping LLM products or agents.
• Experience designing evaluations and using outcome signals at scale in search, ranking, recommendations, or related fields.
• Strong TypeScript skills, including Next.js, and Python skills for data analysis, evaluations, and model work, with a record of delivering work end to end.
• Experience building feedback loops, improving production AI systems, and taking ownership in a startup or small team.
• Familiarity with search, ranking, or AI answer engines; marketing experience is a plus. Experience with recommendations, algorithms, or reinforcement learning is also relevant.

• Improve agent output and content quality across social channels and article writing, and make quality measurable through evaluation systems.
• Improve performance in search engine optimization and generative engine optimization.
• Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world results and performance signals.
• Own and improve AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.
• Help hire and lead our growing AI team.

• AI
• Support
• LLM
• Machine Learning
• Marketing
• Python
• TypeScript

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We are an early-stage AI marketing SaaS startup seeking our first senior AI hire to own the quality and intelligence of our multi-channel marketing agents. You will work closely with our founder to shape agent architecture, evaluation systems, and learning loops that support reliable product results. The annual base salary is $180,000–$230,000 USD. This role is on-site in San Francisco, California; visa sponsorship is not available.

last updated 42 week of 2026