AI Engineer

Role Overview

This role focuses on building Pave's AI compensation analyst agent system that sits on top of the world’s largest proprietary compensation dataset and Pave’s workflow engine. You will shape the technical vision and execution, working with engineers and data scientists to build the product end‑to‑end and bring it to market.

• 7+ years of experience building production systems with deep hands‑on expertise in LLMs, agentic architectures, retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks.
• Strong product intuition—identifying customer problems that AI can uniquely solve and partnering with Product to shape what gets built.
• Proven track record leading 0→1 technical initiatives with high ambiguity, driving them from concept to production.
• Pragmatic engineering judgment: knowing when to move fast and when to invest in quality.
• Ability to drive technical alignment across teams, defining primitives and patterns that other engineers build on.
• Founder mentality with a bias toward action, ownership, and urgency; energized by the challenge of bringing a new AI product to market.

Targeted cash compensation: $221,000 – $299,000.

• Health:
  Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family with a range of options.
• Paid time off:
  Flexible PTO and the freedom to work from anywhere in the world for up to a month.
• Work‑day perks:
  Lunch and dinner stipends plus fully stocked kitchens.
• Professional growth: A quarterly education stipend to invest in skills and knowledge that matter most to you.
• Family support:
  Robust parental leave and a commuter stipend to facilitate in‑person collaboration.