Founding AI Engineer
Core
Design and build production AI systems that interpret ambiguous industrial language, reason across structured and unstructured information, and support complex decision workflows for industrial automation companies.
Role type
Founding AI Engineer (hands-on IC)
Builds
Production AI systems combining LLMs, retrieval, structured knowledge, schemas, and deterministic validation for industrial automation clients
Domain
Industrial automation, manufacturing, technical sales
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLM APIs, retrieval systems, embeddings, structured outputs, tool use, evaluation, Node.js, TypeScript, backend engineering, data pipelines, infrastructure design
Preferred skills
Knowledge graphs, ontology design, agentic workflows, industrial automation, manufacturing, robotics, technical sales
Technologies
LLMs, Node.js, TypeScript, vector databases, cloud infrastructure
Responsibilities
Design and build production AI capabilities across customer workflows; Develop systems combining LLMs, retrieval, and policy rules; Improve entity extraction, requirement classification, and multi-step decision workflows; Build evaluation systems for accuracy and hallucination risk; Design pipelines for meeting transcripts and technical documents; Improve latency, reliability, and scalability of AI infrastructure
Seniority
Founding, high ownership
