Founding AI Engineer

Acceler8 Talent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Competitive salary + bonus

Early product influence

Built for enterprise use

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is hiring a Founding AI Engineer to help build reliable AI products from the ground up. You will work with seasoned founders to shape architecture, tooling and infrastructure, delivering production-grade ML systems that power enterprise use cases.

You’ll contribute to measurable AI outcomes, develop testing and validation workflows, and establish technical standards while growing into a leadership role as the team scales.

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineering skills.
• Experience building and shipping production software systems.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning and LLMs.
• Experience deploying ML systems into production.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into workable solutions.
• Strong technical judgement and decision-making under uncertainty.

Responsibilities

• Build production applications and systems powered by LLMs.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure model quality and behavior.
• Create automated testing and validation tooling for AI systems.
• Build scalable ML infrastructure, services and APIs.
• Run experiments to understand and improve model performance.
• Fine-tune and evaluate modern language models.
• Develop tools to identify weaknesses and failure modes in AI applications.
• Ship reliable software across the full ML lifecycle.

Skills

Python

Production software

LLMs

ML systems deployment

Problem solving

Technical judgement

Job description

Founding AI Engineer

AI models are improving quickly. Making them reliable enough to trust in production is a much harder problem. This is a chance to tackle that problem from the ground up as one of the first engineers at a well-funded AI startup.

What’s in it for you?

• Meaningful equityalongside a competitive salary and bonus
• Join early enough to have real influence over the product and architecture
• Work directly with experienced founders on difficult, unsolved AI problems
• Build technology that will be used byenterprise customers
• Own projects from initial idea through to production
• Help establish the engineering culture and technical standards
• Opportunity to grow into a senior technical leadership position as the team expands

What you’ll be building

The focus is on making AI applicationsmeasurable, testable and dependable enough for real-world use.

Your work will include:

• Building production applications and systems powered byLLMs
• Developing evaluation frameworks to measure model quality and behaviour
• Creating automated testing and validation tooling for AI systems
• Building scalable ML infrastructure, services and APIs
• Running experiments to understand and improve model performance
• Fine-tuning and evaluating modern language models
• Developing tools that identify weaknesses and failure modes in AI applications
• Shipping reliable software across the full ML lifecycle

You’ll likely have:

• Experience building and shippingproduction software systems
• Hands-on experience working with machine learning andLLMs
• Experience evaluating, training or fine-tuning modern language models
• StrongPythonengineering skills
• Experience deploying ML systems into production
• The ability to take an ambiguous problem and turn it into something that works
• Strong technical judgement and a willingness to make decisions without perfect information