Founding Engineer (AI/ML)

About the Role

Build the intelligence layer for an AI-powered recruiting marketplace, including the systems that recommend and match candidates with roles. As a founding engineer, you will own this core product area and work closely with company leadership to turn product goals into production systems.

What You'll Do

• Build and own recommendation, ranking, retrieval, and matching systems.
• Develop LLM-powered features that improve alignment between candidates and roles.
• Take product features from problem definition through implementation and production release.
• Architect and maintain the data pipelines and services that support production models.
• Collaborate with company leadership and ship improvements at a rapid cadence.

What We're Looking For

• Two to five years of experience building and shipping end-to-end software features in production environments.
• Production experience with recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, or ML-powered matching.
• Applied machine learning experience, including shipping models or ML-powered products to users.
• Proficiency in TypeScript or Python, plus experience with production LLM APIs and ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, or equivalent.
• Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines and services, ideally in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and evidence of notable technical work, such as open-source contributions or personal projects.
• Helpful experience includes React, embeddings, vector search, Supabase, Prisma, Typesense, or workflow automation tools.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $130,000 to $170,000 annually, plus founding-hire equity. Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. This role works in person six days per week.