AI Engineer (Co-Founder role)

## About the Role You will be the first technical hire and the architect of BrandBrahma's AI core. You'll work directly with the founder to design, build, and ship the orchestration layer that ties everything together. Your decisions will define the technical DNA of the company. What you'll own from day one: - The AI orchestrator: intent detection, task planning, tool routing, memory, and goal tracking - Tool adapter layer: wrapping our 14 existing tools as clean, orchestrator-callable APIs - User session and long-term memory architecture (Supabase + vector DB) - The human-in-the-loop gate and approval flow that generates proprietary training data - Domain-specific fine-tuning pipeline: brand quality scoring, naming embeddings, domain valuation models - API design for the gig marketplace and CRM integrations - The data flywheel: every agent run feeds back into model improvement ## About the Company BrandBrahma is a unified marketplace for premium domain names, AI-powered branding tools, and expert marketing services. We've already built 14 AI tools — covering startup naming, Sanskrit brand names, domain valuation, logo generation, trademark search, pitch decks, and more — used by founders and marketers globally. This is not a job. This is a co-building opportunity for someone who wants their name on something real. ## Who We're Looking For You are an entrepreneurial engineer who builds to ship, not to impress. You've worked with LLMs deeply enough to know their failure modes. You think in systems and care about product outcomes as much as code quality. You want equity in something you helped create, not just a salary for work you executed. Must-haves: - 4+ years of software engineering, with at least 1 year working with LLMs in production - Strong Python and/or TypeScript — comfortable across the full stack - Hands-on experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source model APIs - Understanding of agentic patterns: tool use, memory, planning, multi-step reasoning - Experience building and deploying REST APIs - Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward shipping fast - Entrepreneurial mindset — you think about user outcomes, not just tickets Strong advantages: - Experience with RAG, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pg vector) - Fine-tuning experience with Llama, Mistral, or similar open-source models - Familiarity with Next.js / React and Supabase - Background in NLP, information retrieval, or recommendation systems - Prior startup experience or personal side projects shipped to real users - Interest in brand strategy, naming, or the creator/startup ecosystem ## What You Get - Equity & ownership - 10%–20% equity (vesting over 4 years, 1-year cliff) - Founding team title on all materials - Carried in fundraising