Founding Level AI Engineer - Start-Up
- Compensation: $200K–$300K base + meaningful equity
- Location: Onsite in New York City
- Work Environment: Highly collaborative, in person team culture
- Tech Stack: GenAI, Python, SQL Alchemy, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Langfuse, TensorZero, Promptfoo
- Sponsorship: Not available
Join a well funded, consumer-focused (dating related) startup building next generation AI powered experiences. This is an opportunity to be part of a small, high caliber team where your work directly shapes the product, the user experience, and the company’s trajectory.
We’re looking for an AI Engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments, ships quickly, and cares deeply about quality, reliability, and craft. The founder comes from a leading dating website.
Responsibilities:
- Design, refine, and maintain prompts, structured outputs, and orchestration systems that power core AI features.
- Build evaluation infrastructure to measure AI quality at scale using tools such as Langfuse, TensorZero, and Promptfoo.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and research to translate AI capabilities into polished, user-facing features.
- Run structured experiments across models, prompts, and configurations to optimize for quality, cost, and latency.
- Develop internal tools—dashboards, admin interfaces, debugging workflows—that give the team visibility into system behavior.
- Identify opportunities to finetune open source models (SFT, DPO, RLHF) to improve performance and reduce cost.
Requirements:
- 1–2+ years building LLM-powered products in production
- 1–3 years in software or ML engineering.
- Proven experience shipping, deploying, and monitoring AI applications over time.
- Comfort working in an early-stage environment where ownership is high and iteration is fast.
- Bonus: experience with recommendation systems or consumer-facing products.
Send your resume to ilana@analyticrecruiting.com
