Founding AI Agent Engineer — Human–AI Coordination

Ignizia

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

8 days ago
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Founding equity
Salary discussed early

Job summary

Ignizia is building the operating layer for human-AI-machine coordination and is hiring to own the agentic layer of the platform. You will craft the cross-platform AI companion, design extraction pipelines, and create agent workflows with human review gates to ensure honesty and reliability.

The role is hybrid in the San Francisco Bay Area, with in-person by default and travel to the design partner possible but not required.

Qualifications

  • Senior AI/LLM engineer who has shipped agentic features to production: model orchestration, tool use, structured extraction and evals as a habit.
  • Exceptional new grad with a research-to-product profile: translate research into usable, real-world tooling.
  • Strong LLM application engineering: prompting, orchestration, retrieval and evaluation.
  • Structured extraction experience: converting messy human input into typed, validated data.
  • Production experience with Python and/or TypeScript in real projects.

Responsibilities

  • Own the agentic layer of the platform and ensure it works end-to-end.
  • Build the platform assistant and cross-platform AI companion.
  • Develop extraction pipelines turning voice/conversation into structured data with provenance.
  • Implement agent workflows with human review gates and truth-check mechanisms.

Skills

Python
TypeScript
LLM engineering
Structured extraction
Eval processes
Trust-focused product sense

Job description

Ignizia is building the operating layer for human-AI-machine coordination and is hiring to own the agentic layer of the platform. You will craft the cross-platform AI companion, design extraction pipelines, and create agent workflows with human review gates to ensure honesty and reliability.

The role is hybrid in the San Francisco Bay Area, with in-person by default and travel to the design partner possible but not required.

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