Applied AI Engineer

Recruiting From Scratch • San Francisco, CA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Our client is building autonomous computer-usage agents designed to automate the messiest workflows in enterprise finance operations. Their systems operate directly through real-world interfaces — navigating portals, processing documents, and orchestrating complex workflows across fragmented systems. Backed by leading investors including Amplify, the company recently raised a $6M seed round and is rapidly scaling its engineering team. This is a rare opportunity to join an elite applied AI startup at the earliest stage and help define the intelligence layer powering next-generation software agents.

Requirements

• 1–4 years of experience in applied AI / ML engineering
• Strong production Python experience
• Experience building and shipping AI systems beyond research prototypes
• Applied ML experience in production environments
• Experience building AI agents, RL systems, or adaptive automation systems
• Strong experimentation mindset
• Comfortable owning systems end-to-end
• Strong product intuition
• Excellent communication and concise thinking
• Comfortable working fully onsite in SF

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI agents / autonomous systems
• Reinforcement learning exposure
• LLM systems in production
• Inference optimization
• Fine-tuning pipelines
• Experience at AI-native startups
• Strong systems-level engineering
• MS / PhD in AI / ML / CS

Responsibilities

• Design and improve AI systems powering autonomous computer-use agents
• Build adaptive agent architectures for dynamic environments
• Develop fine-tuning pipelines for customer-specific workflows
• Improve browser-agent reliability and decision-making
• Optimize inference latency across the stack
• Build evaluation frameworks and experimentation pipelines
• Design feedback loops that improve agent performance over time
• Work on unstructured document understanding systems
• Translate frontier AI research into production systems
• Improve tool-use reasoning and agent reliability
• Ship production-grade applied AI systems end-to-end
• Help define the technical direction of the company’s intelligence platform

Benefits

• Competitive equity
• Visa sponsorship available
• High ownership from day one
• Direct founder exposure
• Research-to-production ownership
• Exceptional upside

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior