Applied AI Engineer

Embedding VC • New York, NY

2d • Onsite

About The Position

We build creative tools for the new creative class—an intelligent canvas where the best AI models enable professional craft. We're a team of ~20, backed by exceptional investors like Hanabi Capital, Menlo Ventures, Justin Kan, and Gabe Whaley (founder of MSCHF). Our customers span a variety of creative industries and include Pentagram, Lionsgate, and Nike.
We’re looking to bring on an Applied AI Engineer who will architect and build the agentic systems powering FLORA.
As part of the founding team, you will work closely with the founders to invent how creative professionals interact with AI in a generative age. This is a first-principles role: you’ll design, implement, and scale the backbone of agentic workflows that let creatives orchestrate text, image, and video models seamlessly on FLORA’s infinite canvas.
As an Applied AI Engineer, you’ll design and build the intelligence layer of FLORA — systems that make multi-modal creative workflows powerful, reliable, and intuitive. You’ll work on problems at the intersection of AI, orchestration, and interaction design: bringing together text, image, and video models into seamless workflows that creatives can actually trust and enjoy using.
You’ll collaborate across product, infra, and design to build agentic features that let creatives speak their idea into existence while maintaining control.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building agentic systems — e.g. multi-step pipelines, tool-using agents, assistants with memory, or similar.
• Familiarity with evaluation frameworks (automated checks, regression testing, human-in-the-loop scoring) to ensure system reliability.
• Experience with memory and retrieval (vector DBs, embeddings, summarization, context management).
• Strong background in orchestration across models, APIs, and tools — including handling retries, fallbacks, and edge cases.
• Comfortable reasoning about multi-modal workflows (text, image, video) and their integration in a user-facing product.
• Ability to work across the stack (frontend, backend, infra) and collaborate closely with product and design.
• Product-minded — you care as much about usability and creative control as you do about technical novelty.
• 3+ years of engineering experience

Nice To Haves

• experience with creative tools
• generative models
• node-based interfaces

Responsibilities

• design and build the intelligence layer of FLORA
• build agentic features that let creatives speak their idea into existence while maintaining control

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
• Equinox membership
• Comprehensive health and dental coverage.

What This Job Offers

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