Founding AI Engineer
About The Position
Join the core team of an early-stage consumer social startup redefining how young people make friends in real life. The company runs AI-powered small group hangouts every week, matching people into compatible groups and handling everything end-to-end — onboarding, profiling, matching, logistics, reminders, and follow-ups — through a suite of AI agents. Thousands of users connect every month, and the platform is rapidly expanding across university campuses across the US. As a Founding AI Engineer, you will be one of the earliest technical hires, shaping the architecture and direction of the AI systems that power the entire product.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building AI/ML systems in production (0–4+ years), ideally in recommender systems, matching, or social graph domains
- Experience processing and modeling at scale (millions of data points)
- Proficiency in collaborative filtering, graph embeddings, and ranking systems
- Experience with reinforcement learning applied to real-world personalization
- Familiarity with multi-channel messaging APIs and AI agent frameworks
- Ability to design scalable infrastructure supporting complex AI workloads
- Strong cross-functional communication skills; comfortable working alongside product, design, and data science
- Founding mindset: you ship fast, own problems end-to-end, and thrive in ambiguity
- Eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Responsibilities
- Build a novel social graph grounded in real-world interaction data, processing millions of data points
- Design and improve matching systems that group users into highly compatible cohorts
- Develop collaborative filtering, graph embeddings, and ranking systems
- Apply reinforcement learning from real-world outcomes to continuously improve personalization
- Discover patterns and signals that lead to meaningful, lasting friendships
- Design and build agent experiences across channels where users already are (Instagram, iMessage, WhatsApp, TikTok)
- Orchestrate a multi-agent system handling the full user lifecycle from onboarding to follow-up
- Integrate third-party APIs and messaging services into reliable, scalable workflows
- Contribute to human-AI interaction design to make agent experiences feel natural and effortless
Benefits
- Salary: $150,000 – $200,000 USD annually
- Significant founding equity
- Opportunity to shape the technical direction of a fast-growing consumer AI company
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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