AI Systems Engineer - Forward-Deployed Builder

AI Acquisition

2d • $12,000 - $22,000 • Remote

About The Position

This role plugs into our highest-need seat — product/app, sales-ops, or CS-ops systems. We hand you a messy, ambiguous, high-stakes problem — and you come back with a working, tested system. You think about the business and the user, not just the code. We're a fast-moving AI company building multiple products at once — an AI app builder, ad-creation tooling, cold-outreach/GTM systems, and an internal operations platform that runs the whole business. We move fast, ship constantly, and we give builders the keys. You'll be embedded where the hardest systems problems are. Depending on the seat, that looks like deconstructing messy real-world workflows into their underlying steps and building the system that makes them run automatically and correctly; building agentic systems that ship value; building product and making sharp build-vs-buy-vs-reuse calls under a deadline; owning the unglamorous plumbing that everything else is gated on; and reasoning commercially to fix the real cause of problems, not the symptom. This is not static work; the systems need someone who keeps improving them.

Requirements

• Obsessive in a healthy way, going all the way down into subjects.
• Ability to ship absurdly fast, building instead of debating.
• Agentic-engineering native: building with AI at the systems level (agents, memory, tools, orchestration, evals, failure modes).
• Ability to see the whole board: technical, but also reasoning about the business and the user.
• Builds things right the first time; work is tested and works.
• High-agency: makes sensible decisions, documents assumptions, and ships without waiting to be managed.
• Ability to take criticism and engage directly, defending thinking with substance.
• Lives in the frontier of AI, using new tools and frameworks.
• Intellectually honest: says 'I don't know' and traces problems to root cause.
• Evidence of building things driven by personal initiative (agents, automations, tools, side-projects, or significant initiated projects at a job).
• Hands-on depth with agentic / AI engineering — building with LLMs and agent frameworks.
• Comfort with APIs, webhooks, JSON, and a real coding language (JS/Python/TS).
• Ability to read and debug a system, not just generate it.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the info-product, agency, or DTC/GTM world — understanding funnels, offers, paid ads, cold outreach, CRO, or how an agency makes money.
• GTM engineering / automation experience with n8n (strongly preferred), or Make/Zapier with complex builds.
• Martech / sales-tech depth — CRMs (Close a plus), tracking/attribution, ESP/email systems, Whop/Stripe, multi-tenant platforms.

Responsibilities

• Deconstruct messy real-world workflows — sales ops, marketing ops, product ops, fulfillment, support — into their underlying steps, then build the system that makes them run automatically and correctly.
• Build agentic systems that ship value — agents, automations, internal tools, data pipelines, reporting/attribution — that real people and real revenue depend on.
• Build product — stand up and rebuild complex products fast (think: an AI app builder, a reporting dashboard, an internal ops platform), making sharp build-vs-buy-vs-reuse calls under a deadline.
• Own the unglamorous plumbing — the integrations, the data model, the tracking, the thing that has to actually work — that everything else is gated on.
• Reason commercially — figure out why a funnel, campaign, or product isn't working from first principles, and fix the real cause, not the symptom.
• Keep improving systems, not just build once and walk away.

Benefits

• No budget cap for tokens and no babysitting.
• Best-in-class tooling, frontier models, every AI coding harness and agent framework.
• A real engineering org and a brilliant CTO to build alongside.
• Autonomy and ownership.
• Top-of-market pay, paid properly and paid on time.
• No politics; speed, output, and quality matter more than process theater.
• Flexible to start; engagements grow into whatever is right for both parties (bigger scope, a real stake in what you own).

What This Job Offers

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