Founding AI Transformation Engineer

Salt Digital Recruitment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment represents a fast-growing technology client. They seek a hands-on engineer who thrives in ambiguity and wants to own AI initiatives from idea to production.

You'll act as architect, engineer, and product owner for AI across the business, designing AI-first platforms, translating challenges into scalable solutions, and driving transformation with stakeholders across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive Full Stack engineering experience.
• Strong Node.js and React experience.
• Experience building production AI applications.
• Deep understanding of LLMs, AI agents, orchestration, and prompt engineering.
• Experience with workflow automation platforms (n8n or similar).
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong API design and systems architecture experience.
• Excellent business acumen and communication skills.
• Comfortable working independently with minimal direction.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-first internal platforms.
• Translate business challenges into scalable technical solutions.
• Develop AI agents and workflow automation.
• Build operational dashboards and internal tools.
• Integrate AI with CRM, workflow, and third-party platforms.
• Own architecture, implementation, deployment, and adoption.
• Collaborate directly with business stakeholders.
• Drive AI transformation across multiple teams.

Skills

Full Stack Engineering

Node.js

React

AI Applications

LLMs & Prompt Engineering

Workflow Automation (n8n)

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

API Design & Architecture

Business Acumen & Communication

Independent Work

Job description

Our client is a fast-growing technology company transforming operations through AI. Rather than simply adding AI features to existing products, they're rebuilding internal systems from the ground up using modern AI architecture and automation. They're looking for a hands-on engineer who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys solving business problems through technology.

About the Role

This is not a traditional software engineering position. You'll act as the architect, engineer, and product owner for AI initiatives across the business. Working directly with operational leaders, you'll identify inefficiencies, design scalable AI-powered solutions, build them, and continuously improve them after deployment. There are no product managers writing specifications. You'll own projects from idea through production.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-first internal platforms.
• Translate business challenges into scalable technical solutions.
• Develop AI agents and workflow automation.
• Build operational dashboards and internal tools.
• Integrate AI with CRM, workflow, and third-party platforms.
• Own architecture, implementation, deployment, and adoption.
• Collaborate directly with business stakeholders.
• Drive AI transformation across multiple teams.

Requirements

• Extensive Full Stack engineering experience.
• Strong Node.js and React (or similar).
• Experience building production AI applications.
• Deep understanding of LLMs, AI agents, orchestration, and prompt engineering.
• Experience with workflow automation platforms (n8n or similar).
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong API design and systems architecture experience.
• Excellent business acumen and communication skills.
• Comfortable working independently with minimal direction.

Nice to Have

• Startup or founding engineer experience.
• HubSpot integrations.
• Browser automation.
• MongoDB.
• Restaurant, logistics or marketplace experience.

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.