AI Engineer

Walden Robotics; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual cash bonus

Company equity

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Daily lunch

Job summary

Walden Robotics in San Francisco is seeking an exceptional AI Engineer to act as a force multiplier for the Strategy organization and a major contributor to Walden’s internal agent platform. This hybrid role splits time roughly 80% on strategy-workflows such as deal sourcing, GTM automation, market intelligence, and context management, and 20% on shared infrastructure with systems engineers.

You will design self-improvement loops for agents and build reusable patterns while bridging strategy

Qualifications

• CS or Engineering undergraduate degree.
• Track record owning ambitious AI-native projects end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Production agentic workflows with modern AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenAI / Anthropic Agents SDK, open source tools).
• Experience in Python, data engineering, API integrations, and workflow automation.
• Experience with LLM evals, observability, and optimization (Langfuse, Weights & Biases).
• Comfortable switching between technical implementation and strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

• CSO direct collaboration on agentic systems for strategic initiatives and special projects.
• Design and ship AI agents and pipelines for market mapping, deal-flow management, and CRM automation.
• Co-develop shared infrastructure to enable other teams to build and run their own agents.
• Bridge strategy, finance, product, engineering, and operations with dashboards and workflow automation.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

API integrations

Workflow automation

LLM evals

Observability

Langfuse

Weights & Biases

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

OpenAI

Anthropic SDK

Education

CS or Engineering degree

Tools

Langfuse

Weights & Biases

OpenAI API

Anthropic SDK

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Job description

Position Summary

We're looking for an exceptional AI Engineer to be a force multiplier for the Strategy org and a major contributor to Walden’s internal agent platform. This is a hybrid role for an AI-native operator who builds modern agentic systems with extreme ownership and equal comfort across the technical and the commercial. You'll split your time roughly 80% on strategy-org workflows (deal sourcing and qualification, GTM automation and CRM Ops, market intelligence, due diligence, context management) and 20% on the shared internal agent infrastructure, working alongside our systems engineers to make every Walden operator agent-augmented. You'll close the feedback loop on agents you own, design self-improvement loops, and make your work reusable across the company.

Position Summary

We're looking for an exceptional AI Engineer to be a force multiplier for the Strategy org and a major contributor to Walden’s internal agent platform. This is a hybrid role for an AI-native operator who builds modern agentic systems with extreme ownership and equal comfort across the technical and the commercial. You'll split your time roughly 80% on strategy-org workflows (deal sourcing and qualification, GTM automation and CRM Ops, market intelligence, due diligence, context management) and 20% on the shared internal agent infrastructure, working alongside our systems engineers to make every Walden operator agent-augmented. You'll close the feedback loop on agents you own, design self-improvement loops, and make your work reusable across the company.

Core Responsibilities

• CSO direct collaboration: Serve as the CSO's thought partner on agentic systems for strategic initiatives, prototype analytical frameworks fast, and execute special projects spanning GTM, partnerships, fundraising, modeling, and customer-data strategy.
• CSO vertical agents (~80%): Design and ship AI agents and pipelines for market mapping, segmentation, customer discovery, deal-flow management, contract triage, executive comms, market intelligence, and CRM automation. Use a stack combining Anthropic, OpenAI, custom LLM pipelines, internal and external data sources, and modern CRM integrations. Build the single source of truth that powers strategic KPIs and executive decisions.
• Internal agent platform (~20%): Co-develop the shared infrastructure that lets other Walden teams build and run their own agents safely and observably. Ship reusable patterns and primitives the rest of the company adopts.
• Cross-functional integration: Bridge strategy, finance, product, engineering, and operations through direct collaboration, real-time dashboards, scenario planning, and workflow automation. Translate technical reality into commercial framing and back.

Required Qualifications

• CS or Engineering undergraduate degree.
• Track record owning ambitious AI-native projects end-to-end at a frontier startup or research lab, with the ability to operate without close supervision under uncertainty.
• Demonstrated expertise building production agentic workflows with modern AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenAI / Anthropic Agents SDK, open source tools).
• Experience in Python, data engineering, API integrations, and workflow automation.
• Experience with LLM evals, observability, and optimization (Langfuse, Weights & Biases).
• Comfortable context-switching between technical implementation and strategic thinking, and between writing code and writing prompts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain knowledge in robotics, autonomous vehicles, enterprise AI, or similar markets.
• Track record building 0 to 1 analytical tools that drove important business decisions.
• Experience in venture capital, corporate development, or strategic consulting.

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company-subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].

Walden Robotics participates in E-Verify. If you receive an offer of employment from Walden, you will need to go through the E-Verify process of digital verification of your employment authorization documents as provided on the Form I-9. Participation in E-Verify does not limit your right to work and verification will only be completed after you become

At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all people—supporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world-class technical skills with creative vision, grounded in humility and collaboration.