AI Platform Lead — Remote, Equity, Own the AI Gateway & Apps

Harakumo; New York (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Quarterly NYC meetups

Equity discussion in early talks

Job summary

Harakumo is seeking a strategic engineer to own and evolve its AI platform, including the AI Gateway, Vector DB, Memory, hosted Agents, and MCP connector. You will build features that let assistants run complete apps from conversations and improve tooling for safety and cost control.

We value hands-on experience with LLM APIs, retrieval systems, and agent frameworks, plus a bias for shipping real features used by customers.

Qualifications

• Production experience building with LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or open models).
• Hands-on experience with retrieval (RAG), vector databases or agent frameworks.
• Bias for shipping: launched AI features used by real people.

Responsibilities

• Own Harakumo’s AI platform components (gateway, vector DB, memory, hosted agents).
• Grow the MCP connector and widgets to turn ideas into live apps.
• Ensure cost awareness and safe usage with spending controls and error handling.
• Write evals and conformance checks to prove model capabilities and maintain honest docs.

Skills

LLM APIs experience

RAG and vector DB

Shipping AI features

Tools

MCP servers

Job description

Harakumo is seeking a strategic engineer to own and evolve its AI platform, including the AI Gateway, Vector DB, Memory, hosted Agents, and MCP connector. You will build features that let assistants run complete apps from conversations and improve tooling for safety and cost control.

We value hands-on experience with LLM APIs, retrieval systems, and agent frameworks, plus a bias for shipping real features used by customers.