Visiting Engineer: Live Selling Copilot
About The Position
This role is to build a LiveOps Copilot: a human-first AI producer that runs backstage for live commerce sellers, keeps the host front and center, and automates the operational work around the show. The goal is to pressure-test the idea quickly and honestly with real users and customers. You will be building an AI Fund idea, not bringing your own startup idea into the program. The process typically includes a Builder Event or equivalent working conversation, then a 48-hour Build Challenge, then panel review with AI Fund build leadership. The compensation is intentionally modest during the residency because the upside, if the idea works, is a founder-level role.
Requirements
- Strong full-stack execution, especially on real-time systems, operator workflows, and AI-assisted products.
- Demonstrated experience building GenAI products with retrieval, tool use, guardrails, and production feedback loops.
- Product judgment for human-in-the-loop automation where the right answer is usually to remove busywork rather than replace the human outright.
- Ability to move quickly with external design partners and translate ambiguous feedback into working product decisions.
- You actively use AI coding assistants and modern GenAI tools as part of your build workflow.
- US work authorization. We are unable to sponsor visas for this role.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with live commerce, creator tools, marketplaces, video products, or seller operations.
- Experience with multilingual UX, moderation systems, or low-latency chat infrastructure.
- Founder or founding engineer experience.
Responsibilities
- Build the end-to-end real-time system across chat ingestion, retrieval, guardrails, operator UX, listing controls, and post-show outputs.
- Work with one of our large LPs as your build/design partner to identify the right pilot category, host set, data path, and success metrics for the MVP.
- Design the automation ladder from draft support to host-controlled agentic replies without undermining authenticity or seller trust.
- Make decisions about latency, guardrails, disclosure, and escalation so higher-autonomy features are safe and useful.
- Work with AI Fund's build team on product wedge, technical risk, and the path from pilot to a broader live-commerce OS.
Benefits
- $10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total).
- If the build leads to a funded company, the next step is a founder-level role with meaningful equity upside.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
