Founding AI Engineer — Agent Platform Lead

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

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,