Founding AI Engineer

Paires; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

TypeScript in production

FastAPI

Vector databases

Fintech or fundraising

Job summary

Paires is hiring a Founding AI Engineer to own the agent layer of an AI-first fundraising platform, including the conversational agents that run warm outreach and investor relationships, and the matching engine behind them. You will build, scale, and ship end-to-end, shaping the core product as the primary builder.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role in a fast-growing startup. You will own the agent stack, the matching engine, and the backend data pipelines, using Python, Postgres, Supabase,

Qualifications

• 3+ years shipping production software
• Experience shipping LLM systems to production
• Full app from zero to production and running end to end
• Builder seat not a management role
• Experience with embeddings for retrieval or ranking
• Strong Python and data/system reasoning

Responsibilities

• Own the agent layer and its orchestration, research investors, draft outreach, and manage conversations end-to-end
• Own the matching engine with embeddings, ranking, scoring, and feedback loop
• Handle backend and data pipelines using Python, Postgres, Supabase and AWS
• Ship features to production end-to-end and decide what to build next as we scale
• Design evals to ensure outputs are high quality and reliable

Skills

Python

LLM systems

Embeddings

Data reasoning

Problem solving

Tools

Claude Agent SDK

Pydantic AI

Postgres

Supabase

AWS

FastAPI

Job description

The role

We are hiring our Founding AI Engineer to own the agent layer of an AI-first fundraising platform the conversational agents that run our warm outreach and investor relationships and the matching engine behind them Paires is where founders come to raise capital We pair them with the right investors from a large engaged global investor network then our agents run the warm outreach and manage the relationships that turn into meetings It is a two-sided platform a product for founders and a living network on the investor side not one-way matching We are live with paying clients profitable and self-funded and we run as a small senior flat team that ships fast The role You own our core the agent system that runs the product - agents that research investors draft outreach that reads human and carry investor conversations end to end - plus the matching engine that pairs founders with investors behind them You build it you scale it and you run it This is the most important surface in the product and it is yours

What you will own

• The agent layer one orchestrator routing work to specialist agents Those agents research investors draft outreach that reads human and carry investor conversations end to end Evals gate what they are allowed to do alone This is where you start
• The matching engine behind it embeddings ranking scoring and the feedback loop that makes matches sharper over time
• The backend and data behind it all Python Postgres Supabase AWS clean pipelines
• The agent layer is built on the Claude Agent SDK and Pydantic AI
• Shipping to production end to end and the judgment to know what to build next as we scale

You are a fit if you

• Have been one of the first engineers at a quick-growing company running the show you know what it takes to scale and deliver a product not just manage it
• Have at least 3 years of shipping production software behind you and have taken a full app from zero to production and kept it running end to end
• This seat needs a whole-product builder not only a model specialist
• Have shipped LLM systems to production and have real examples you can walk us through including an agent system that is more than a single prompt in a loop
• Have built retrieval ranking or matching with embeddings in production
• Write strong Python and reason clearly about data and systems
• Design evals because you care whether the output is actually good
• Own outcomes end to end and move fast with AI tooling
• You write the code yourself this is a builder seat not a management seat
• There is no team to hand work to

Bonus

• TypeScript in production
• FastAPI
• vector databases
• fintech or fundraising