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Applied AI Engineer
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San Francisco, CA | Onsite
1 - 3 Years of Experience
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Title of Role: Applied AI Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site, 5 days/week) Company Stage of Funding: Seed (~$6M raised, backed by Amplify) Office Type: On-site Salary: $180,000 – $280,000 + Competitive Equity Visa: Visa sponsorship available (including new H1B applications; must start before end of June)
Company Description
Our client is building autonomous computer-usage agents designed to automate the messiest workflows in enterprise finance operations.
Their systems operate directly through real-world interfaces — navigating portals, processing documents, and orchestrating complex workflows across fragmented systems.
Backed by leading investors including Amplify, the company recently raised a $6M seed round and is rapidly scaling its engineering team.
This is a rare opportunity to join an elite applied AI startup at the earliest stage and help define the intelligence layer powering next-generation software agents.
What You Will Do
- Design and improve AI systems powering autonomous computer-use agents
- Build adaptive agent architectures for dynamic environments
- Develop fine-tuning pipelines for customer-specific workflows
- Improve browser-agent reliability and decision-making
- Optimize inference latency across the stack
- Build evaluation frameworks and experimentation pipelines
- Design feedback loops that improve agent performance over time
- Work on unstructured document understanding systems
- Translate frontier AI research into production systems
- Improve tool-use reasoning and agent reliability
- Ship production-grade applied AI systems end-to-end
- Help define the technical direction of the company’s intelligence platform
Ideal Candidate Background
- 1–4 years of experience in applied AI / ML engineering
- Strong production Python experience
- Experience building and shipping AI systems beyond research prototypes
- Applied ML experience in production environments
- Experience building AI agents, RL systems, or adaptive automation systems
- Strong experimentation mindset
- Comfortable owning systems end-to-end
- Strong product intuition
- Excellent communication and concise thinking
- Comfortable working fully onsite in SF
Preferred
- Experience with AI agents / autonomous systems
- Reinforcement learning exposure
- LLM systems in production
- Inference optimization
- Fine-tuning pipelines
- Experience at AI-native startups
- Strong systems-level engineering
- MS / PhD in AI / ML / CS
Strong Signals
- Applied AI roles at frontier AI companies
- Agentic workflow experience
- Shipped production AI systems
- Research-to-production ownership
- Strong startup execution
- Clear product thinking
- Concise communication style
- Experience at high-velocity startups
Compensation and Benefits
Base salary: $180,000 – $280,000 Equity: Competitive equity Visa sponsorship available High ownership from day one Direct founder exposure Research-to-production ownership Exceptional upside
Why Join
This is an opportunity to build the intelligence layer powering next-generation enterprise automation.
You’ll work at the frontier of autonomous agents, taking cutting-edge AI research into production systems that solve real operational complexity.
If you’re deeply technical, product-minded, and excited by building adaptive AI systems from first principles, this role offers exceptional ownership and upside.
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