Founding Applied AI Engineer
$150k/y-$300k/y
Weekday (YC W21)2 days ago
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Summary
Weekday (YC W21) is seeking a Founding Applied AI Engineer to join their team in San Francisco or New York. The role involves building the next generation of production-grade AI systems that operate reliably in real-world environments.
About the Role
As a Founding Applied AI Engineer, you will design and ship agentic AI systems, build RAG pipelines, deploy and monitor LLM workloads in production, and focus on evaluation, reliability, and safety. You will also integrate AI into core product workflows and work closely with founders and customers.
About You
Required:
- Experience shipping AI systems to real users.
- Deep familiarity with agents, RAG, and orchestration.
- Python-first development experience.
- Production ML / LLM operations experience.
- Comfort operating in early-stage environments.
Preferred:
- Experience with LangGraph / Temporal / orchestration frameworks.
- Vector databases.
- HIPAA / SOC-2 compliant systems.
- Terraform / Kubernetes.
- Edge or real-time AI systems.
Benefits
- Full-time position.
- Location: San Francisco / New York.
- Salary: $150k–$300k.
- Role stage: Seed → Series B.
Weekday (YC W21)
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San Francisco, CA