Applied AI Engineer
Applied AI Engineer
Architect and build production-grade AI applications from zero to one
You will own end-to-end development of production AI systems serving real customers from day one.
▪ Competitive base salary and benefits
▪ Meaningful upside participation in the value you create
▪ Direct access to 50+ portfolio companies and their operations
▪ Flat structure with direct access to leadership
▪ Your code reaches thousands of users from day one
Technical Excellence
- Strong engineering fundamentals with experience building production AI systems.
- Comfortable across the stack, e.g. infrastructure (K8s, cloud platforms), backend (Python, FastAPI), and frontend (React, TypeScript).•Additional benefits:
▪ Architect and build production-grade AI applications from zero to one
▪ Design systems that handle enterprise-scale data and millions of users from day one
▪ Implement everything from model serving infrastructure to polished user interfaces
▪ Make critical technical decisions balancing innovation with reliability
▪ Ship with velocity: build like a start-up, scale like an enterprise
- Able to pick up new languages and technologies quickly as builds vary across portfolio companies.
- Hands-on experience with modern AI/ML frameworks and deployment patterns, including generative AI.
- Track record of shipping products that scale to thousands of users.
▪ Navigate the complexity of implementing AI in messy, regulated, legacy-filled enterprise environments
▪ Build solutions that work with imperfect data, demanding SLAs, and complex stakeholder requirements
▪ Transform cutting-edge research into revenue-generating products, not demos
▪ Tackle technically challenging problems across fintech, enterprise SaaS, B2B services and more
▪ Lead product development across multiple portfolio companies and industries
▪ Hone your skills across different verticals in 9-18 month sprints
▪ Build institutional knowledge about what makes AI products succeed or fail
▪ Own the entire AI product lifecycle from ideation to production
▪ Demonstrated ability to ship fast without sacrificing quality
▪ Experience in high-growth startups or equally fast-paced environments
▪ Strong opinions, loosely held: able to make decisions with incomplete information
Location: New York (in-person 3 days/week, with travel to portfolio companies)