AI Engineer

Boom • Austin, TX

18d • $120,000 - $200,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Boom is seeking an AI Engineer to join their expanding engineering team. This role is crucial for meeting the demands of B2B partners and B2C users, with AI being central to Boom's vision. The engineer will be responsible for building production-grade customer-facing agents, driving internal AI productivity, and advancing the capabilities of AI in the real estate space. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate closely with co-founders, product leadership, and senior engineers, contributing directly to the company's growth. The role is based in Austin, TX. Boom's engineering culture emphasizes hands-on work, shipping real product, maintaining high standards, and clear communication. The ideal candidate is excited about building agents that handle actual customer interactions and revenue-bearing workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years in web development with at least 1-2 years building production LLM features or agents
• Hands-on with Anthropic/OpenAI APIs and agent patterns (tool use, structured outputs, RAG, multi-step planning)
• Strong instincts for evals. You've built or owned an eval suite and know the difference between a demo that wows and a system that works at scale
• Backend-leaning full stack on Ruby and Python (Grape and Sequel) with React/Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend
• Comfortable with third-party APIs (OAuth, webhooks, rate limits, idempotency), observability, on-call, and real incidents
• You're already running AI coding agents autonomously, including overnight, to ship. Daily Claude Code use is table stakes
• Strong communicator and self-starter in a fast-paced, early-stage environment
• Comfortable championing AI adoption with non-technical teammates and meeting them where they are
• Empathy for our end users, including low-to-moderate-income renters, and a desire to build products that make a difference

Nice To Haves

• Voice AI stacks (LiveKit, Deepgram, ElevenLabs)
• Vector stores and retrieval pipelines
• AWS
• Terraform

Responsibilities

• Ship customer-facing production AI features across Boom's product
• Drive Boom's internal AI productivity: tooling, workflows, and automations that help every team (engineering, operations, customer success, sales) do more with less
• Own the full agent stack: prompts, tools, memory, retrieval, orchestration, evals, and observability
• Build the eval and feedback loops that let us improve agents safely without regressions: offline evals, online metrics, and human review queues
• Partner with product and leadership to pick the right AI bets (customer-facing and internal) and ship them
• Help shape how we hire, how we work with AI, and how we operate as an engineering team

Benefits

• Competitive salary with stock options
• Full healthcare coverage (health, dental, vision) including 50% coverage for dependents
• 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year + 3 sick days + all US federal holidays (11 in total)
• Company-issued laptop/MacBook
• Company-sponsored training & development
• Regular off-sites, retreats, and other company-sponsored events and travel opportunities

What This Job Offers

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