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Founding AI Engineer

In office · San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-02

Core

Building the agent runtime, model orchestration, and evaluation infrastructure for a virtual finance employee processing invoices and contracts for industrial and defense companies.

Role type

Founding AI Engineer (Agent Systems & Orchestration)

Builds

Production agent systems for invoice processing and contract analysis

Domain

Industrial/Defense Finance + LLM Agent Orchestration

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM orchestration, tool use, agent runtime design, evaluation harness design, fine-tuning vs prompting tradeoffs, computer-use agents

Preferred skills

Research-to-production translation, tracking frontier agent research

Technologies

LLM frameworks, orchestration tools, evaluation frameworks

Responsibilities

Own the agent runtime (computer use, tool orchestration, memory loop); Design ensemble routing layer for model selection; Build evaluation harness for regression detection; Partner with applied controller team to improve prompts and models; Set hiring bar and culture

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC

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