Founding AI Engineer, Agents & Evaluation

Zingage; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base and meaningful equity

Equipment stipend

Luxury gym membership in NYC

Daily lunch

Time off as needed

Happy hours and builder events in Soho

Snacks in office

Job summary

Zingage (Kuzushi Inc.) is building the intelligence layer for home-based care in New York City. We seek a founding AI engineer to own evaluation, simulation, retrieval, and alignment infrastructure for autonomous agents in a high-impact healthcare setting.

You will ship production ML/LLM improvements, measure outcomes, and drive the harness while collaborating with founders. This is the most senior AI hire at the company and offers meaningful equity and rapid impact.

Responsibilities

• Evaluation and simulation infrastructure: CI/CD for agent behavior; run Casey against historical scenarios; measure fill-rate outcomes; A/B test prompt and orchestration changes before production.
• Retrieval and grounding architecture: design retrieval to provide right context to the right agent at the right turn as knowledge surface grows.
• Alignment and outcome measurement: connect every ranking decision, outreach attempt, and agent choice to business outcomes across systems.
• Agent intelligence roadmap: decide when fine-tuning, reward modeling, or new architectures are the right next investment and ship them.

Job description

Founding AI Engineer, Agents & Evaluation

New York City Full time On-site Engineering

We're building the intelligence layer for all home-based care. Medicaid, Medicare, the VA, and private insurers authorize $300B annually for 14M Americans to receive care at home. Only 8M get it. $84B is spent on admin workers coordinating the gap. We're closing it by replacing coordination with autonomous agents.

We've built a sophisticated multi-agent harness in production: Casey handles scheduling and call-outs autonomously, Steffi plans schedules forward, Riley answers inbound calls, and Binky lets admins tune their own agents. At one customer, our agents handle 2,600+ calls a week at 97% containment. The four largest home care EMRs chose us as their system of action.

You're the person who turns this into a system that learns. You own the evaluation, simulation, retrieval, and alignment infrastructure that lets us ship agent improvements with confidence, measure what's actually working, and compound every production decision into a better model. This is the most senior AI hire at the company.

// What you'll own

• – Evaluation and simulation infrastructure: CI/CD for agent behavior. Run Casey against historical scenarios, measure fill-rate outcomes, catch regressions, A/B test prompt and orchestration changes before they hit production. This is the piece that lets us ship changes to a sophisticated multi-agent system with confidence instead of vibes.
• – Retrieval and grounding architecture: our agents operate over dense, agency-specific knowledge (SOPs, escalation policies, scheduling rules, compliance constraints). Design the retrieval layer that gets the right context to the right agent at the right turn, so the agent harness keeps scaling as the knowledge surface grows.
• – Alignment and outcome measurement: connect every ranking decision, outreach attempt, and agent choice to downstream business outcomes (fills, retention, utilization). The event data exists across multiple systems. Nobody has unified it. You will, and everything else compounds from it.
• – The agent intelligence roadmap: we have 100K+ scheduling decisions and growing with paired outcome data. You'll decide when fine-tuning, reward modeling, or new model architectures are the right next investment for the harness, and ship them.

// Who you are

• – An applied scientist who ships production code: your mental model of system behavior is probabilistic, but your output is working systems.
• – Fluent in the full stack of interventions (prompting, retrieval, evals, fine-tuning, RL) and have the judgment to know which to reach for.
• – Someone whose first instinct when something breaks is to design an experiment, not just read a stack trace.
• – Comfortable with the reactive trap dying. You stop treating symptoms and start building the systems that prevent whole classes of problem.
• – Indifferent to healthcare domain experience. The domain is learnable in weeks.

// How we build

Tony Xu built DoorDash by running tens of thousands of experiments a year. 95% fail. The 5% that work compound into permanent improvement for every customer. That's our model. The quality of our product is proportional to the number of experiments we can run.

Concrete example: this week we found that a significant slice of one customer's caregiver roster was blocked by stale availability data. We ran an experiment instead of filing a ticket: clean the data, measure whether fills-per-contact improves, build proactive monitoring that catches it across every customer. That's the loop.

Your job is to build the infrastructure that makes every engineer, yourself included, faster and more confident at running these experiments on a production agent system.

// The process

• – Intro call (45 min, remote): Daniel walks you through the role and the reactive-trap diagnosis. You walk us through a reliability or evaluation system you've built for a production ML/LLM product.
• – Technical exercise (async, own time): we hand you a real slice of our data (ranking snapshots, outreach events, outcomes). You design and prototype an offline evaluation framework. Record a Loom walking through your thinking.
• – On-site day (half day, in-office): review + live extension of your exercise, architecture conversation, close with the founders.
• – Offer.

// What we offer

• – Competitive base and meaningful equity. If this works, it should work for you.
• – Equipment stipend: whatever setup makes you fast.
• – Luxury gym membership in NYC. We work in health care. Yours counts too.
• – Daily lunch, and dinner when work runs past dark. Big fan of late-night jams!
• – Time off as needed. We measure output, not hours at a desk.
• – Happy hours, poker nights, and builder events in our Soho office.
• – Snacks in office, including team favorites like Gruns gummies, sardines, protein bars, and midday froyo runs.

Zingage (Kuzushi Inc.) is an equal opportunity employer.