AI Engineer

daydream • San Francisco, CA

9d • Onsite

About The Position

daydream is building the world’s best SEO agent, paired with the top 1% of human experts, aiming to own organic search end-to-end so customers don’t have to hire specialized teams, evaluate tools, or manage agencies. The company addresses the challenge of producing expert-level content at scale and adapting to continuous changes in ranking systems and user behavior by replacing fragmented tools and external vendors with a single system. This system, an SEO agent, handles analysis, planning, and generation, while experienced Growth Leads convert that work into shipped pages, technical fixes, and updated priorities, remaining accountable for performance. daydream has raised over $20M from investors like First Round Capital, Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, and SOMA Capital, and is backed by growth leaders from Notion, Airtable, Webflow, and Dropbox. The team is small and senior, comprising individuals with backgrounds from Facebook, Klaviyo, Tesla, and Replit. As an Applied AI Engineer, you will be instrumental in building the core intelligence of the SEO agent, translating expert SEO judgment into production-grade AI workflows, and owning problems from framing and design through deployment and iteration, directly impacting customer outcomes.

Requirements

• Strong experience building production AI or machine learning systems
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs beyond basic API usage
• Solid understanding of NLP concepts such as embeddings, retrieval, and generation
• Experience owning systems end-to-end, including design, implementation, and iteration
• Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and making sound technical tradeoffs

Nice To Haves

• Deep expertise in NLP or applied machine learning
• Strong mental models of transformer-based architectures and modern language models
• Experience designing evaluation methodologies for AI systems
• Familiarity with probabilistic modeling, algorithms, or statistical inference
• Experience translating domain expertise into scalable software systems
• A high bar for correctness, reliability, and operational quality

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate LLM-driven systems that prioritize and drive SEO work
• Encode human expertise into structured, repeatable AI workflows
• Architect and optimize complex LLM pipelines for accuracy, reliability, and cost
• Build evaluation frameworks that measure quality and real-world performance
• Collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and Growth Leads to integrate AI into execution
• Ship quickly, then iterate based on feedback from production usage
• Work primarily across LLM-driven systems, data pipelines, and AI-enabled services, using Python, TypeScript, and C#, deployed on Google Cloud with modern foundation models

Benefits

• Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with HSA and FSA options, plus One Medical, Talkspace, and Teladoc
• Commuter benefit includes a monthly reimbursement to support your commute to the office
• Meals on us include lunch reimbursement on in-office days, with dinner covered when you’re working late
• Personal well-being includes an annual stipend for gym, fitness classes, therapy, and wellness expenses
• Learning and development includes an annual stipend for books, courses, and classes to support your growth
• Team retreats include two company retreats per year to connect, collaborate, and reset
• Monthly team time includes regular dinners and outings to spend time together
• Dog-friendly office (we have corgis)

What This Job Offers

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