AI Engineer

AI Engineer

True Classic is looking for an AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy AI-powered applications and workflows that solve real business problems across the company. In this hands-on, execution-focused role, you will work cross-functionally to integrate AI into how we acquire customers, maximize lifetime value, and streamline operations.

You'll thrive here if you're a problem solver first—someone who would rather ship solutions than wait on specs or build slide decks. You're comfortable writing clean, production-ready code, moving quickly, and turning ambiguous problems into real, working systems that drive impact.

All True Classic roles are global and omni-channel, driving accountability across product categories, regions, and sales/marketing channels. This role will allow you to impact operations worldwide, ensuring alignment with our business objectives and delivering success across diverse markets and platforms.

What You Will Do

• Design and develop AI-powered applications, tools, and workflows that address high-leverage True Classic business problems
• Build AI agents, automation pipelines, and LLM-powered features across acquisition, retention, and operations
• Implement and integrate RESTful APIs for efficient, secure data access and exchange across our tech stack
• Write clean, maintainable, production-quality code across Python, React, Node.js, and other relevant frameworks
• Deploy and manage applications on AWS and other cloud platforms using modern CI/CD pipelines
• Partner with marketing, finance, operations, and commercial teams to solve their hardest problems
• Perform code reviews, enforce best practices, and drive continuous improvement
• Evaluate and implement AI tools that fit our stack — and stay at the frontier to bring new capabilities in

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Marketing: AI-powered acquisition, creative testing, audience targeting, and lifecycle tools
• eCommerce & Product:
  Personalization, search, merchandising, and conversion optimization
• Operations:
  Automation of high-friction workflows across supply chain and fulfillment
• Finance & BI:
  Connect AI initiatives to revenue, margin, and efficiency KPIs
• Commercial Channels:
  Solutions that work across DTC, wholesale, marketplace, and international

Qualifications

• Professional experience in AI engineering or software development
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong expertise in AI prompting, engineering workflows, and working with LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, or similar)
• Proficiency in Python, React, Node.js, Express.js — SQL/PostgreSQL a plus
• Hands-on experience with cloud and Dev Ops: AWS, Heroku, Git Hub CI/CD
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and implementation
• Systems thinker who can architect end-to-end solutions, not just point fixes
• Creative, tenacious, and hungry — thrives in ambiguity and moves with urgency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a DTC, e-commerce, or consumer brand
• Familiarity with our stack:
  Meta, Google, Tik Tok, Klaviyo, Triple Whale, Shopify
• Experience with prompt engineering best practices for AI-driven workflows
• Track record deploying scalable AI solutions in production environments

Workplace Arrangement

On-site (5x week in our Calabasas, CA office). We are open to candidates relocating to the Calabasas area for this role; however, True Classic does not provide relocation assistance.

Why True Classic

• One of the fastest-growing consumer brands in the world — and we are just getting started
• AI-native from the top down: leadership is personally invested in AI transformation
• Industry-leading, innovative work you will not find inside most consumer brands
• Grow fast: scope, title, and comp scale with the company
• Real impact — your work shapes the experience of millions of customers worldwide
• Human, work-friendly environment where great people do their best work

Compensation

• $75k-$85k + bonus

Time Off

• Unlimited PTO and sick time

Health & Wellness

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• $100/month Wellness Stipend
• Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Work & Growth Support

• $100/month Personal Workspace/Office Stipend

Perks

• $1,000/year True Classic merchandise allowance
• 401(k) plan with 3%…