Founding Applied AI Engineer - Real-Time Ops Platform

DOSS.COM; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Doss is building an AI-powered Operations Cloud for real-world product businesses in San Francisco. You will own applied AI across Doss’ platform—Dossbot, schema/workflow generation, and agentic automation that work with live procurement, inventory, and finance data.

As a senior engineer, you’ll design end-to-end AI architecture, ensure safety with guardrails, and mentor peers to raise the field’s bar for enterprise AI. This role sits at the core of transforming back-office processes.

Qualifications

• Shipped LLM-powered features or agents to production.
• Hands-on work with foundation model APIs, RAG, tool use, prompt and context engineering.
• Built eval harnesses and guardrails for non‑deterministic systems running against business‑critical data.
• Strong backend fundamentals: designing systems, Postgres, and cloud services for reliable, multi‑tenant web applications.
• Judgment for when AI is the right tool and when it isn't.

Responsibilities

• Own the applied AI architecture end-to-end: model selection, orchestration, RAG over the unified data model, evals, guardrails, and cost/latency budgets in production.
• Build Dossbot into the primary interface for operations: natural-language search, analysis, and automation grounded in live supply-chain, finance, and ops data.
• Engineer AI-assisted tooling that uses foundation models to propose, validate, and apply customer schemas and workflow definitions on live production tenants.
• Design agentic workflows that act inside enterprise guardrails: permission-aware, auditable, tenant-isolated, and safe to run against a customer's system of record.
• Stand up the eval and observability infrastructure to measure quality, catch regressions, and proactively detect anomalous or risky emergent behavior.
• Partner with product, design, and our Forward Deployed team to deliver on their highest-leverage AI use cases.
• Mentor and shape engineering culture as the team's center of gravity for applied AI, raising the bar on how we build, evaluate, and ship LLM-powered systems.

Skills

LLM features in production

Foundation models

RAG pipelines

Prompt engineering

Guardrails & safety

Backend design

Tools

Postgres

Cloud services

Job description

Doss is building an AI-powered Operations Cloud for real-world product businesses in San Francisco. You will own applied AI across Doss’ platform—Dossbot, schema/workflow generation, and agentic automation that work with live procurement, inventory, and finance data.

As a senior engineer, you’ll design end-to-end AI architecture, ensure safety with guardrails, and mentor peers to raise the field’s bar for enterprise AI. This role sits at the core of transforming back-office processes.