Senior AI Engineer

You.com • San Francisco, CA

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

You.com builds AI-powered search and research APIs for the agent era — the retrieval layer developers reach for when they're building agents, copilots, and AI-native products. This role sits at the seam between engineering and the developer community. You're a strong AI engineer who ships real things, and you're equally at home in an open-source repo, on a podcast, or on a conference panel. We're looking for a builder developers trust, someone who can write a reference implementation one week and explain to a room of engineers (or a customer's CTO) why it matters the next.

Requirements

• AI engineering & systems design. You're a hands-on engineer fluent in the modern AI and agent stack.
• You make sound architecture decisions and can weigh domain-specific, enterprise requirements against how you actually build.
• You bring a public body of work — an active GitHub profile, open-source projects, or demos the community has found worth using.
• Developer-community fluency. You understand developers because you are one.
• You can put yourself in another technical builder's shoes and know what will genuinely matter to them.
• You've contributed to open source and/or organized or taken part in hackathons, meetups, or talks.
• Communication. You can go deep technically with engineers and clearly convey value to non-technical and C-level audiences. This is a true twofer — both registers, not one or the other.

Nice To Haves

• Business acumen. You can show ROI.
• The things you build solve real business problems, and you can demonstrate the return to leaders — not just the cool factor.

Responsibilities

• Build reference implementations, demos, and tooling that show developers how to get real outcomes from You.com's APIs — improving agentic results, cutting inference cost and token usage, and getting strong performance out of smaller, cheaper models.
• Contribute to the open-source AI community on You.com's behalf: ship and maintain projects, and land You.com into the agent frameworks and developer tools people are already using.
• Be a credible technical voice — through code, writing, and talks — and represent You.com at hackathons, meetups, and panels.
• Bring the developer's perspective back into the product. You stay close to what developers actually need and act on it quickly.
• Translate between audiences: go deep on the technical how with engineers, and make the business why land with non-technical and executive stakeholders.

Benefits

• Hubs in San Francisco and New York City offering regular in-person gatherings and co-working sessions
• Flexible PTO with U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
• A competitive health insurance plan covers 100% of the policyholder and 75% for dependents
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave in the US
• 401k program, 3% match - vested immediately!
• $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
• $600 technology stipend to support a portion of our hybrid/remote team's cell phone and internet expenses
• $1,200 per year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
• The chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research

What This Job Offers

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