Applied AI Engineer

Applied AI Engineer – Stealth AI Start-Up – Remote (US / Canada)

A well-funded AI start-up is reimagining how software gets built – creating a platform where engineers collaborate with intelligent systems that can understand context, generate code, and learn from real-world developer interactions. With a rapidly growing user base and strong backing from leading investors, the company is building the foundation for the next generation of autonomous development tools.

The Role

We’re looking for an Applied AI Engineer who’s passionate about pushing large language models and agentic systems into production. You’ll help design and deploy intelligent workflows that make developers faster, smarter, and more creative.

You’ll experiment, fine-tune, and ship – working closely with engineering and product teams to deliver cutting-edge AI features to real users.

What You’ll Do

• Build and refine LLM-powered systems for reasoning, command prediction, and workflow automation.
• Prototype and iterate intelligent agents that assist with software creation, debugging, and deployment.
• Develop prompt optimization and fine-tuning pipelines to improve performance and reliability.
• Design data-driven feedback loops that help the system continuously learn from usage.
• Work end-to-end: from research and experimentation to scalable deployment.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience applying AI/ML to real-world, user-facing products.
• Strong foundation in machine learning, NLP, or gen AI – ideally with hands-on LLM experience.
• Proven software engineering ability – from model prototyping to scalable system design.
• Creative problem-solver comfortable moving from research to rapid implementation.
• Degree from a top-tier university (e.g. CMU, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc.); publications in leading NLP or ML conferences (e.g. EMNLP, ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI etc.) are a strong plus.

Why You’ll Love It

• Be the first AI hire, with significant ownership and scope to shape the roadmap, technical vision and AI direction within the business.
• Work on problems at the intersection of AI research, developer experience, and product impact.
• Collaborate with exceptional engineers and researchers from leading tech companies.
• Fully remote across the US or Canada, with optional in-person meetups and offsites.
• Competitive compensation with meaningful early-stage equity.
• Backed by world-class investors and angels behind companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Salesforce, and OpenAI.

If you’re passionate about applying AI to reshape how software is built and want to work with a team that’s leading that change – we’d love to hear from you.