About this role
Job title: Founding AI/ML Engineer
About the Role Hiring.Cafe is building a 100× better job search engine — fast, comprehensive, honest, and actually useful. We index millions of jobs, remove noise, rank what matters, and help people find real opportunities without dark patterns, ads, or pay-to-win placement. We don’t believe in hype. We believe in shipping product and listening obsessively to users. In 12 months, we grew from 0 to 1 million+ monthly active users. So everything you ship goes directly to real people.
What You'll Do
- Build and improve AI recommender systems that help people discover opportunities they wouldn’t have found on their own
- Develop AI browser agents that scrape every job on earth, in real-time
- Design scalable infrastructure that transforms fragmented web data into a clean, searchable platform
- Collaborate with engineering, data, and design decisions to shape how people find their next chapter
- Ship features quickly that translate to real users and impact
What We're Looking For
- Ownership, leverage, and responsibility from day one
- Technically strong with solid fundamentals in programming and systems design
- Able to learn fast and go deep on unfamiliar problems
- Obsessed about details, quality, and correctness
- Relevant experience to building AI search (one or more of the following): General machine learning background; Large-scale search and ranking systems; ML recommender systems; Retrieval infrastructure; Building LLM Agents
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive pay & equity
- Flexible PTO & family leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Design your own perks as a core member of the founding team
- Salary bands: IC2: 160k - 180k base salary + equity; IC3: 200k - 310k base salary + equity