Founding AI Engineer
Job in
New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listed on 2026-08-18
Listing for:
Acceler8 Talent
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-18
Job specializations:
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Software Development
AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Machine Learning/ ML Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Founding AI Engineer
AI models are improving quickly. Making them reliable enough to trust in production is a much harder problem. This is a chance to tackle that problem from the ground up as one of the first engineers at a well-funded AI startup.
What’s in it for you?
- Meaningful equityalongside a competitive salary and bonus
- Join early enough to have real influence over the product and architecture
- Work directly with experienced founders on difficult, unsolved AI problems
- Build technology that will be used byenterprise customers
- Own projects from initial idea through to production
- Help establish the engineering culture and technical standards
- Opportunity to grow into a senior technical leadership position as the team expands
What you’ll be building
The focus is on making AI applicationsmeasurable, testable and dependable enough for real-world use.
Your work will include:
- Building production applications and systems powered byLLMs
- Developing evaluation frameworks to measure model quality and behaviour
- Creating automated testing and validation tooling for AI systems
- Building scalable ML infrastructure, services and APIs
- Running experiments to understand and improve model performance
- Fine-tuning and evaluating modern language models
- Developing tools that identify weaknesses and failure modes in AI applications
- Shipping reliable software across the full ML lifecycle
You’ll likely have:
- Experience building and shippingproduction software systems
- Hands-on experience working with machine learning andLLMs
- Experience evaluating, training or fine-tuning modern language models
- StrongPythonengineering skills
- Experience deploying ML systems into production
- The ability to take an ambiguous problem and turn it into something that works
- Strong technical judgement and a willingness to make decisions without perfect information
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