Engineer
US$130,000 – US$170,000 / yr base salary
Posted 11 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Founding Engineer (AI/ML)”
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- Expected experience
- 2–5 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
- Visa sponsorship
- Offered
| Base salary | US$130,000 – US$170,000 / yr |
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About the Role
Build the intelligence layer for an AI-powered recruiting marketplace, including the systems that recommend and match candidates with roles. As a founding engineer, you will own this core product area and work closely with company leadership to turn product goals into production systems.
What You'll Do
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Build and own recommendation, ranking, retrieval, and matching systems.
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Develop LLM-powered features that improve alignment between candidates and roles.
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Take product features from problem definition through implementation and production release.
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Architect and maintain the data pipelines and services that support production models.
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Collaborate with company leadership and ship improvements at a rapid cadence.
What We're Looking For
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Two to five years of experience building and shipping end-to-end software features in production environments.
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Production experience with recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, or ML-powered matching.
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Applied machine learning experience, including shipping models or ML-powered products to users.
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Proficiency in TypeScript or Python, plus experience with production LLM APIs and ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, or equivalent.
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Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines and services, ideally in a fast-paced startup environment.
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Strong computer science fundamentals and evidence of notable technical work, such as open-source contributions or personal projects.
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Helpful experience includes React, embeddings, vector search, Supabase, Prisma, Typesense, or workflow automation tools.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $130,000 to $170,000 annually, plus founding-hire equity. Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California. This role works in person six days per week.