Founding AI Systems Engineer Engineering NYC

Studio; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Studio is building tools and AI experiences that help people learn, grow, and self-actualize. You will design and build AI agents powering our App Builder and creator apps, from autonomous workflows to intelligent pipelines, working closely with the founders to push the boundaries of what is possible.

You will architect multi-step processes, optimize LLM-based features for production, and build robust data pipelines while crafting user-facing tools to customize AI behavior at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building agents and agentic systems in production.
• Experience building with LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI application patterns.
• Ability to design multi-step autonomous workflows and orchestration.
• Experience building robust data pipelines for training and inference.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI agents and agentic systems that power creator apps at scale.
• Architect multi-step autonomous workflows.
• Integrate and optimize LLM-based features for production use.
• Build robust data pipelines for training and inference.
• Create tools for creators to customize AI behavior for their audiences.
• Optimize AI systems for cost, latency, and quality.
• Stay current with AI research and rapidly apply new techniques.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Agents and agentic systems

LLMs and prompt engineering

Autonomous workflows architecture

Data pipelines for training and infer

Cost, latency, and quality优化

Job description

Studio is building the self-actualization company: software tools and AI-powered experiences that help people change their lives, powered by the expertise of world-class creators.We're a small, exceptional team at the bleeding edge of AI — shipping wildly fast, learning constantly, and having fun. Reach out if you want to shape the future of how creators thrive and people self-actualize.

About the role

We're looking for someone who can design and build AI agents and agentic systems that power our App Builder and our creator apps — from autonomous workflows and LLM orchestration to intelligent pipelines and novel AI-powered experiences. You'll work directly with the founders to push the boundaries of what's possible, with a keen eye for what actually creates value for users and the business.This is a rare opportunity to join a team that moves energizingly fast, thinks deeply, and is building something that genuinely matters. We're not just making another app. We're building all the infrastructure and tools that allow anyone to create effective, innovative software to help people learn, grow, and self-actualize.

What you'll do

• Design and build AI agents and agentic systems that power creator apps at scale
• Architect multi-step autonomous workflows
• Integrate and optimize LLM-based features for production use
• Build robust data pipelines for training and inference
• Create tools for creators to customize AI behavior for their audiences
• Optimize AI systems for cost, latency, and quality
• Stay current with AI research and rapidly apply new techniques

Requirements

• You love to learn and experiment — deeply curious about how things work
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience building agents and agentic systems in production
• Great product and business sense — you understand what creates real value
• Experience building with LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI application patterns
• Ability to balance research exploration with shipping products
• Excited about consumer AI applications that help real people
• Based in NYC or willing to relocate (in-person role)

Nice to have

• You've been deep in the AI wave — experimenting with the latest models, building agents, and shipping agentic systems
• Experience with fine-tuning or training models
• Background in NLP, conversational AI, or RAG systems
• You've built your own AI-powered projects or products

We particularly like people who are

• Driven to seek good explanations — you often find yourself creating new theories of how things work or should work
• Able to see the full picture — you think holistically about how every detail interconnects with seemingly unrelated things
• Multidisciplinary and creative — you think across domains, connect unexpected ideas, and turn them into new possibilities
• Low-ego in the pursuit of truth — you care more about what's right than who's right
• Builders who ship fast — you know velocity is a competitive advantage and that momentum compounds. You've founded something before or dream of starting your own company someday.

The team

Our team is insanely talent-dense — and we believe in keeping it that way. In this AI-powered world, we believe in small teams with exceptional, multidisciplinary people with high leverage.The majority of our team are previous VC-backed startup founders. Some of us are also Guinness World Record holders, Grandmasters of Memory, artists with millions of Spotify streams, an award-winning drag queen, an engineer who scored a perfect law school LSAT score, a competitive blindfolded Rubik's Cube solver, an expert knitter, and writers whose blogs reach millions.We care less about resumes and more about people who've built, created, or mastered something remarkable.