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Founding AI Engineer

Job in New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listing for: Acceler8 Talent
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-18
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Machine Learning/ ML Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 - 220000 USD Yearly USD 150000.00 220000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: New York

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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