AI Engineer (Early Career)

Embedding VC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

LingopalLingopal is seeking an early-career AI Engineer to join our founding team on a new AI agent product. You’ll ship features quickly, prototype with real pilot customers, and voice your own opinions about product direction.

You’ll work hands-on with LLMs and agents, using modern AI coding tools daily. This role suits a fresh graduate or someone with limited professional experience but a genuine passion for building.

Qualifications

• Fresh grad or early-career engineer with limited professional experience.
• Portfolio of projects, side projects, hackathons or open-source.
• Solid engineering fundamentals and eagerness to learn fast.
• Own opinions on product and a sense of ownership.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship product features across the stack on our AI agent product.
• Prototype quickly, learn from pilot customers, and iterate.
• Bring your own point of view on product direction — ownership is encouraged.
• Work hands-on with LLMs and agents, using modern AI coding tools daily.

Skills

Portfolio of projects

Strong fundamentals

Ownership mindset

Learning fast

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

LLMs

AI coding tools

Job description

About LingopalLingopal builds real-time AI language technology, with a live translation product used in production today. We're now building our next product — an AI agent platform aimed at enterprises with heavy customer-support needs (hospitality, airlines, travel) and fast-scaling AI-agent companies.

About the Role

We're looking for an early-career AI Engineer — a fresh grad or someone with limited professional experience but an unmistakable passion for building. You'll work alongside our founding team and Tech Lead on our new AI agent product, ship real features quickly, and be encouraged to form and voice your own opinions about where the product should go.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship product features across the stack on our new AI agent product.
• Prototype fast, learn from pilot customers, and iterate.
• Bring your own point of view on product direction — we want engineers who think like owners, not ticket-takers.
• Work hands‑on with LLMs and agents, and use modern AI coding tools daily.

What We're Looking For

• Fresh grad or early-career engineer with limited professional experience.
• A passionate builder — a portfolio of projects side-projects hackathons or open-source that shows you love to make things.
• Solid engineering fundamentals and eager to learn fast.
• Own opinions on product and a strong sense of ownership.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast low‑process environment.