Applied AI Engineer - US

## About the company Founded in 2021, Pulsora the "Enterprise Sustainability Platform", is a well-funded Silicon Valley software startup. It is dedicated to empowering purpose-driven enterprises to manage and improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and overall sustainability footprint with an integrated, comprehensive, flexible, and innovative technology platform built for compliance, tracking, and insight. We are well funded, have amazing customers across industries and geographies, established strategic partnerships with leading ERP and consulting firms, and are growing fast! ## About the job We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced engineer who can independently build and scale full-stack products while designing and deploying reliable LLM-powered systems and agent workflows in production. ## What you will do - Build & Ship AI-Powered Products - Design, develop, and deploy LLM-powered applications and agent-based systems in production - Own the full product lifecycle from concept → production → iteration across backend and frontend - Build scalable, maintainable systems that solve real customer problems - Design & Operate GenAI Systems - Develop prompt strategies, context management (RAG, memory), and agent workflows - Integrate and optimize across leading LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open-source) - Continuously improve system quality, reliability, and performance - Leverage AI-First Development Workflows - Use AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code) to accelerate development - Validate, test, and safely integrate AI-generated code into production systems - Contribute to evolving best practices for AI-first engineering - Ensure Quality, Reliability & Performance - Own testing strategy including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing - Define and implement evaluation frameworks for AI outputs (quality, consistency, failure modes) - Debug production issues and optimize for latency, cost, and scalability - Take full ownership of system reliability and production stability - Collaborate & Execute in Fast-Moving Environments - Translate ambiguous requirements into working solutions - Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to deliver impactful features - Collaborate effectively with distributed and offshore engineering teams - Advance AI & Product Capabilities (Nice to Have Contributions) - Build advanced agent systems (planning, orchestration, parallel execution) - Apply frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or similar where appropriate - Explore fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks, and benchmarking techniques - Contribute to intuitive, user-friendly AI-driven experiences and human-in-the-loop workflows ## About you - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred (or equivalent hands on experience) - 1-2 years of experience building AI-powered applications (AI agents or AI-assisted coding) and building and deploying LLM-powered applications or agents in production - Experience integrating major LLM A