Founding AI Engineer - Build Core AI for Automation

Goliath-Partners; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k)

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Goliath-Partners in San Francisco is seeking a Founding AI Engineer to own core AI architecture for autonomous, multi-step workflows. This hybrid SF role offers direct access to founders and meaningful technical ownership to shape a fresh AI-powered enterprise automation platform.

You will build production-ready AI systems, test novel approaches, and influence engineering standards as the team scales from an early stage. Join a hands-on environment with strong technical ownership.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering, ML, or applied AI experience
• Experience delivering an LLM powered or agent based product to real users
• Strong understanding of model evaluation, tool calling, retrieval, prompting, and orchestration
• Able to build reliable production software around probabilistic AI systems
• Comfortable owning loosely defined problems from initial idea through deployment
• Closely follows developments in LLMs and agentic AI
• Strong computer science or engineering fundamentals

Responsibilities

• Develop the core architecture behind autonomous, multi step AI workflows
• Build systems that allow agents to use external software, retain context, and complete complex tasks
• Create testing and evaluation frameworks for reliability, accuracy, and performance
• Determine when to use prompting, retrieval, fine tuning, or different underlying models
• Rapidly test new research and integrate the strongest approaches into the product
• Investigate production failures and turn them into lasting system improvements
• Influence technical direction, engineering standards, and future hiring

Skills

Software engineering

Machine learning

AI systems

LLM / Agent-based product

Model evaluation

Production reliability

CS fundamentals

Job description

Goliath-Partners in San Francisco is seeking a Founding AI Engineer to own core AI architecture for autonomous, multi-step workflows. This hybrid SF role offers direct access to founders and meaningful technical ownership to shape a fresh AI-powered enterprise automation platform.

You will build production-ready AI systems, test novel approaches, and influence engineering standards as the team scales from an early stage. Join a hands-on environment with strong technical ownership.