Founding Engineer (Applied AI & ML Ops)

Solstice Health • New York City, NY

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About The Position

We are in search of an ML operations engineer who has the drive required to be a part of a founding team looking to tackle a difficult but meaningful problem. You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of our AI systems—from experimentation to production deployment and ongoing optimization. Beyond development, you will be collaborating closely with co-founders Yiwen and Aris on all facets of the startup as we grow Solstice in the coming years.

Requirements

• Engineering chops. Relevant experience building systems & deploying enterprise-grade products
• Independent thinking. While we believe specific skills can be taught, we need someone who has the ability to make decisions and drive results on their own.
• Strong proficiency in full-stack web development technologies such as Python, FastAPI, Docker, AWS
• Experience working with LLMs such as GPT, Claude and Gemini to create LLM-based workflows, RAG Pipelines and agentic solutions. (Either formally or through projects/experimentation)
• Superb communication and collaboration skills. We believe in direct communication and willingness to provide as well as accept criticism.
• Unreal work ethic. Diamonds were not made overnight.

Responsibilities

• Leverage prompt-engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model experimentation, and benchmarking to optimize performance of Solstice’s platform on real biopharma marketing data.
• Wrangle proprietary commercial & marketing brand data into complex LLM pipelines to produce high-quality, compliant life sciences marketing content.
• Implement ML Ops best practices, including CI/CD pipelines for ML, model versioning, automated testing, and monitoring.
• Developing LLM eval infrastructure to store, analyze and iterate on LLM outputs and the feedback we receive from clients
• Scope, architect, and build SOTA agents and pipelines while supporting customers directly.
• Flex across the full stack (frontend, backend, infra) to build whatever is necessary to support our customers.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Relocation support
• Opportunity to work at a high-velocity and high-energy startup
• Visa sponsorship (O-1) for internationals

What This Job Offers

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