Founding AI Platform Engineer (Backend)

deCircle; New York (NY); On-site; USD 215,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Equity option

Job summary

Arzana is seeking a Founding AI Product Engineer to own and productize the core backend platform. You will help build the agent runtime, extraction pipelines, and integration infrastructure powering 22+ customers. This is a greenfield role with significant ownership and impact.

The role splits 75% backend productization and 25% UI-facing work, collaborating with Forward Deployed Engineers to accelerate live deployments and scale across manufacturing customers.

Qualifications

• CS/STEM Bachelor's minimum.
• 3-6 years in product, systems, or full-stack engineering.
• Strong Python; backend/data/cloud (AWS); full-stack a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and own a core backend domain (agent runtime, extraction pipelines, ERP integration frameworks, or evals).
• Productize/unify six overlapping order entry tools from 20% to 80-85% code reuse.
• Pair with Forward Deployed Engineers and decide what goes into the platform.
• Ship fast; customers go live in under a week.
• Occasional travel to customer plants.

Skills

Python

Backend development

Cloud computing (AWS)

Product ownership

Full-stack engineering

Education

CS/STEM Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Next.js

React

Vertex AI

Claude

GPT

RAG

VLM Extraction

ERP Integrations

MES Integrations

Job description

Arzana is seeking a Founding AI Product Engineer to own and productize the core backend platform. You will help build the agent runtime, extraction pipelines, and integration infrastructure powering 22+ customers. This is a greenfield role with significant ownership and impact.

The role splits 75% backend productization and 25% UI-facing work, collaborating with Forward Deployed Engineers to accelerate live deployments and scale across manufacturing customers.