AI Engineer

Metriport • San Francisco, CA

5d • $160,000 - $220,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This is the first AI Engineer role at Metriport, and one of the highest-leverage hires the company will make this year. The role is seeking an engineer who treats AI agents as leverage, aiming to fundamentally change how products are shipped and operations are conducted. The position offers a significant opportunity for the right individual with an owner mentality, high ownership, laser focus, and high energy and determination to be instrumental in building a multi-billion dollar company. If successful, the AI Engineer will effectively provide every employee with a teammate that never sleeps, enabling the company to leverage new opportunities and discover new ways to deliver value.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset with an Olympian-level work ethic.
• Proven track record of shipping production-grade systems with LLM agents at their core, not just demos or prototypes.
• Experience with production failures and a strong understanding of evals, prompt versioning, tool use, retries, and cost control.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills (TypeScript/Node.js, Python, AWS, SQL).
• Ability to think in terms of workflows and systems, identifying opportunities for AI automation.
• Strong sense of ownership and a drive to achieve results quickly.
• Focus on leverage and impact over the latest AI models or frameworks.
• Located in San Francisco or the Bay Area, or willing to relocate.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with healthcare data.
• Experience with compliance environments (SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST).
• Experience shipping AI-enabled workflows at an early-stage startup.

Responsibilities

• Build the autonomous SDLC pipeline that takes tickets through to PRs, utilizing Linear as the state machine, Claude Code (or similar) as the execution engine, sandboxed compute, code review, and CI feedback loops.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to integrate AI into products in novel ways.
• Build internal agents and copilots to automate tasks such as platform monitoring and fix preparation, customer issue triaging, response drafting, generating compliance evidence for audits, summarizing PR activity, and on-call assistance.
• Design the evaluation, observability, and guardrail layer for all AI systems deployed to production, ensuring they are measurable, debuggable, and safe to roll back.
• Work directly with founders and team leads to identify and prioritize the highest-leverage workflows for AI implementation.
• Maintain and scale the AI platform to serve a growing company.

Benefits

• Competitive equity + compensation package
• Full family Platinum health insurance, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan + matching
• Flexible work from home or in-office
• Complimentary healthy lunches when working in-office (and breakfast + dinners as needed)
• Quarterly company off-sites
• MacBook provided
• Unlimited PTO

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed