Founding AI Engineer — Build AI Agents & Retrieval

Matterhaul Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 185,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity options
AI coding budget
Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Matterhaul Inc. in San Francisco is seeking an early-career AI engineer to take ownership of AI systems and work collaboratively with senior engineers. Ideal candidates have a strong academic background in engineering and practical experience with AI systems in production.

This role involves significant responsibilities, from improving agent surfaces to writing evaluation metrics and optimizing retrieval systems. The position offers career growth with mentorship opportunities.

Qualifications

  • 2 years of post-grad engineering experience or equivalent.
  • 12+ months of building and running AI systems in production.
  • Solid software engineering capabilities and experience with the modern LLM stack.

Responsibilities

  • Own agent surfaces and make weekly improvements.
  • Write evals for AI systems and develop retrieval tuning.
  • Iterate on prompts and tools as part of the AI engineering process.

Skills

Software engineering proficiency
Experience with AI systems
TypeScript proficiency
Python proficiency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's from a top engineering program

Tools

Google APIs
OpenAI APIs

Job description

Matterhaul Inc. in San Francisco is seeking an early-career AI engineer to take ownership of AI systems and work collaboratively with senior engineers. Ideal candidates have a strong academic background in engineering and practical experience with AI systems in production.

This role involves significant responsibilities, from improving agent surfaces to writing evaluation metrics and optimizing retrieval systems. The position offers career growth with mentorship opportunities.

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