Engineer in Residence, AICoS

career; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

AI Fund invites engineers to a 12‑week, full‑time, on‑site residency in Mountain View, CA, to prototype an AI chief of staff that translates meeting context into structured work and routes it to the right owners. You’ll build core workflow, extraction, and integration capabilities with product‑level autonomy.

The role emphasizes pragmatism, guardrails, and rapid learning with real users; compensation is modest upfront with founder‑level equity upside if the idea succeeds.

Qualifications

• Strong full‑stack or backend engineering across workflow products, APIs, data models, and production integrations.
• Demonstrated experience building GenAI systems for structured extraction, agentic workflows, tool use, evals, and guardrails.
• Experience integrating workplace tools, task systems, calendars, messaging products, or document platforms.
• Product judgment for human‑in‑the‑loop automation where managers can review important decisions without becoming the system's full‑time operator.
• You know how to use AI coding assistants and modern AI tools to accelerate implementation without surrendering engineering judgment.

Responsibilities

• Own the product across meeting ingestion, structured extraction, routing, manager review, integrations, and deployment.
• Design the context model that connects people, projects, decisions, and commitments without requiring heavy setup.
• Build evals and guardrails for extraction quality, incorrect routing, duplicate tasks, and unhelpful follow‑ups.
• Test the single‑player manager workflow quickly and learn which parts create enough daily value before team adoption.
• Work with AI Fund's build team on product scope, technical risk, and the path from manager utility to a broader operating system.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Backend engineering

GenAI systems

Tool integration

AI tooling & guardrails

Tools

Slack

Asana

Notion

Google Workspace

Calendars

Job description

Engineer in Residence, AICoS

Managers with heavy meeting loads spend hours translating conversations into decisions, action items, owners, and follow-ups. The tools record what happened, but they rarely close the loop across projects and people. This role is to build an AI chief of staff that turns meeting context into structured work, routes it correctly, and keeps commitments moving without creating another system for managers to maintain.

What You'll Build

• A meeting intake and extraction pipeline that identifies decisions, action items, owners, deadlines, and unresolved questions.
• A routing engine that maps work to the right project, person, and operating context.
• A review and follow-up system that drafts nudges, prepares one‑on‑ones, and keeps action items current.
• A lightweight work graph and integration layer across tools such as Slack, Asana, Notion, Google Workspace, and calendars.

What You'll Do

• Own the product across meeting ingestion, structured extraction, routing, manager review, integrations, and deployment.
• Design the context model that connects people, projects, decisions, and commitments without requiring heavy setup.
• Build evals and guardrails for extraction quality, incorrect routing, duplicate tasks, and unhelpful follow‑ups.
• Test the single‑player manager workflow quickly and learn which parts create enough daily value before team adoption.
• Work with AI Fund's build team on product scope, technical risk, and the path from manager utility to a broader operating system.

What You Need

• Strong full‑stack or backend engineering ability across workflow products, APIs, data models, and production integrations.
• Demonstrated experience building GenAI systems for structured extraction, agentic workflows, tool use, evals, and guardrails.
• Experience integrating workplace tools, task systems, calendars, messaging products, or document platforms.
• Product judgment for human‑in‑the‑loop automation where managers can review important decisions without becoming the system's full‑time operator.
• You know how to use AI coding assistants and modern AI tools to accelerate implementation without surrendering engineering judgment.
• US work authorization. We are unable to sponsor visas for this role.

Helpful But Not Required

Experience with meeting transcription, audio pipelines, or calendar intelligence.

Experience building productivity, project‑management, or collaboration software.

Founder or founding engineer experience shipping a workflow product from zero to one.

Who This Is For

A builder who is impatient with coordination work that software should already handle.

Someone who can make an AI workflow feel dependable enough to become part of a manager's daily operating rhythm.

What To Know Upfront

• This is a 12-week, full‑time, on‑site residency in Mountain View, California.
• Not every residency becomes a company. The goal is to pressure‑test the idea quickly and honestly with real users and customers.
• You will be building an AI Fund idea, not bringing your own startup idea into the program.
• The process typically includes a Builder Event or equivalent working conversation, then a 48‑hour Builder Challenge, then panel review with AI Fund build leadership.
• The compensation is intentionally modest during the residency because the upside, if the idea works, is a founder‑level role.

Compensation

$10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total). This is a contract role during the residency. If the build leads to a funded company, the next step is a founder‑level role with meaningful equity upside.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

$10,000 - $10,000 a month