Founding Engineer, Applied AI - From Research to Production

Parisi Labs, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Parisi Labs, Inc. is seeking an engineer to turn modeling ideas into working systems. You will build evaluations, data and inference workflows, backend services, and tools while working directly with founders and researchers.

You will shorten the path from hypothesis to reliable software and help transform model outputs into forecasting, scenario exploration, and decision-support capabilities.

Qualifications

• Track record taking ambiguous technical problems from idea to production.
• Strong software engineering skills across backend services, APIs, data workflows, testing and debugging.
• Hands-on experience taking ML models or agent-based systems into production, including evaluation and ongoing operation.
• Ability to work in research and model code while building maintainable services and tooling.
• Judgment on when to experiment vs reuse infrastructure and when simple solutions suffice.
• Clear communication and collaboration with researchers, product engineers, and founders.

Responsibilities

• Turn research and agent ideas into working prototypes, evaluations, internal tools, and customer-ready capabilities.
• Build reusable systems for forecasting, covariate search, model-input preparation, inference, evaluation, and decision support.
• Work across model code, APIs, data contracts, workflows, backend services, and lightweight product experiments.
• Investigate failures in models, agents, and their surrounding systems, and turn findings into better evaluations and more dependable behavior.
• Improve developer experience, observability, reliability, security, and deployment speed where they unlock more research and product progress.
• Work with the CTO, Chief Scientist, and CEO on technical direction and the capabilities needed for customer deployments.
• Help set the engineering standards for the team, including testing, technical documentation, and sound decisions about what to build or reuse.

Skills

Backend services

APIs

Data workflows

Testing

Debugging

Production deployment

Job description

Parisi Labs, Inc. is seeking an engineer to turn modeling ideas into working systems. You will build evaluations, data and inference workflows, backend services, and tools while working directly with founders and researchers.

You will shorten the path from hypothesis to reliable software and help transform model outputs into forecasting, scenario exploration, and decision-support capabilities.