Founding Engineer (Applied AI)

The role

As a founding engineer (Applied AI), you’ll help build the core of Centralize’s AI product. We’re on track to build a multi-billion dollar GTM company that will change the way people sell forever. You will…

• Completely own features end-to-end & work directly with the founders to scope out the problem space.
• Scope, architect, and build SOTA research agents, chatbots, RAG pipelines & rerankers while supporting customers directly.
• Lay the groundwork for our LLM infrastructure & scale the system as we create a new category in GTM tooling.
• Make complex LLM pipelines work at near-perfect accuracy.
• Flex across the full stack (frontend, backend, infra) to build whatever is necessary to support our customers.
• Ship fast.

You’ll be successful in this role if you…

• Have strong English communication skills in speaking & writing.
• Love working in a hyper-paced environment with intense deadlines (our customers love us and expect a lot!)
• Are an expert at LLM / NLP infrastructure (reranking, evals, graphs) & have proven experience building impressive products in the space.
• Love reading & implementing research papers to stay up-to-date with SOTA models & LLM techniques.
• Are able to take undefined product thinking & independently scope + execute large features optimizing for speed with attention to scale.
• Have an extremely high bar for quality and attention to detail.
• Care a ton about user success and satisfaction.
• Are kind, humble, and a great team player.

Bonus points if you’ve…

• Previously worked in the GTM tooling space (sales, customer success, etc) or have familiarity with similar tools.
• Previously been a founder or founding engineer.
• Participated in AI research and published a research paper as either first or second author.
• Super brownie points: Have experienced at least 1 sales call (sat in or ran one)

Note:

While the above criteria are ideal, we index heavily on slope, not y-intercept. If you’re driven, hungry and have a hockeystick trajectory, we’d love to talk!

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