Founding AI Engineer
Listed on 2026-03-15
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Software Development
AI Engineer, Machine Learning/ ML Engineer
Overview
About Nowadays Nowadays is the first AI platform for planning corporate events. For example, our AI can contact venues by email and phone to get availability, deal with back-and-forth negotiations, and present the best options. We’ve proudly planned events ranging from Amazon’s intimate executive dinners in New York, to Quantstamp’s product launch in Turkey, to Google’s offsite adays’ leadership team is comprised of talented MIT software engineering graduates as well as prestigious backgrounds including Google, Meta, Amazon, Doordash, and McKinsey.
Our mission is to simplify the process of bringing people together by automating the complexity behind events. Our vision is to become the go-to platform for organizing unforgettable events — making it easy and accessible for everyone, everywhere.
As a Founding AI Engineer, you ll play a pivotal role in shaping our tech, product, and culture — and in building the future of how people gather.
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)- Build and scale AI systems that automate our event-planning workflow end-to-end
- Develop and scale AI agents for auto-emailing, calling, web scraping, and deep research
- Improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations across our LLM-powered features
- Design and implement scalable AI workflows using modern LLM frameworks and tools
- Work with real customer data to identify automation opportunities and validate AI solutions
- Build evaluation systems to measure and improve AI performance over time
- Partner closely with product and ops teams to understand pain points and ship AI features that matter
- Shape our AI/ML architecture and practices from the ground up
- Experience building and deploying AI / LLM systems in production
- Strong proficiency in Python and modern AI/LLM frameworks (Lang Chain, Llama Index, etc.)
- Deep understanding of prompt engineering, RAG, and techniques to improve LLM accuracy
- Experience with AI agents, tool calling, and autonomous systems
- Comfort with full-stack development and shipping features end-to-end
- A bias toward action—you like moving fast, experimenting, and iterating based on real-world results
- Excitement about pushing the boundaries of what AI can automate in complex workflows
- Experience building AI web agents or browser automation systems
- Zero-to-one AI product development experience
- Familiarity with evaluation frameworks and AI observability tools
- Published research or contributions to open-source AI projects
- Working Times: US (PST) Hours
- Must be based in San Francisco
- $130K-$170K
- 0.5% - 2% equity
The amount listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
All Of Our Employees Get- Free lunch and dinner
- Quarterly team offsites
- Monthly fitness stipend
- Health insurance
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Generous PTO with required time off to recharge
- High ownership, autonomy, and direct access to founders
- Access to top venues, events, and travel experiences
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