Arzana - Founding AI Product Engineer
deCircle•New York, NY
•$215,000 - $235,000•Onsite
About The Position
We are looking for a Founding AI Product Engineer with 3-6 years of experience to own and productize the core backend platform at Arzana, a YC-backed AI company automating the front office of American manufacturing. You'll be one of four or five engineers who build the agent runtime, extraction frameworks, and integration infrastructure that powers all 22+ customers. This is a greenfield role with real ownership, split between 75% backend productization and 25% UI and customer-facing responsibilities.
Requirements
- Production AI systems experience (multi-step agents, RAG, VLM extraction, evals)
- Strong Python; backend/data/cloud (AWS); full-stack a plus
- Proven end-to-end product ownership
- CS/STEM Bachelor's minimum
- U.S. person (ITAR)
- In or willing to relocate to NYC
- 3-6 years in product, systems, or full-stack engineering
Nice To Haves
- Founder/CTO/founding engineer experience strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Build and own a core backend domain (agent runtime, extraction pipelines, ERP integration frameworks, or evals)
- Productize/unify six overlapping order entry tools from 20% to 80-85% code reuse
- Pair with Forward Deployed Engineers and decide what goes into the platform
- Ship fast; customers go live in under a week
- Occasional travel to customer plants
Benefits
- Up to $10,000 relocation support
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
