Freelance AI Engineer & Creative Technologist

Freelance AI Growth Engineer & Creative Technologist

Thousand Oaks, United States | Posted on 08/04/2026

Company: PA-AI
Location: Southern California
Collaboration: Periodic in-person meetings at RKS Design in Thousand Oaks
Engagement: Initial paid 30-day independent contractor sprint
Potential: Continuing freelance engagement or transition to a full-time role based on results and mutual fit

PA-AI is a human-centered artificial intelligence platform that helps organizations make better product, innovation, business, and marketing decisions.

The platform combines advanced AI with a deeper understanding of human behavior, emotion, perception, aspiration, and trust. It helps teams identify opportunities, evaluate ideas, reduce risk, and create products, services, brands, and experiences that people genuinely value.

PA-AI is built on Psycho-Aesthetics®, a proprietary methodology developed and refined by RKS Design through more than 45 years of innovation and product-development work.

You will design and build an AI-powered growth system that identifies relevant conversations, creates platform-specific content, activates communities, tests messaging, and converts awareness into qualified PA-AI users.

We are not looking for someone who simply schedules posts. We want someone who can build the machine behind the campaign.

The right candidate will know how to combine existing AI tools, SaaS platforms, content applications, CRM systems, analytics products, and automation services into a coordinated growth workflow.

You will not be expected to build every component from scratch. You should be able to identify the best existing tools for each requirement, integrate them effectively, and add lightweight customization where necessary.

This may include using Claude and other AI-assisted development tools to create scripts, connect APIs, transform data, configure workflows, troubleshoot integrations, and develop small custom applications that close gaps between existing platforms.

The goal is not unnecessary custom software. The goal is a practical, measurable, maintainable system that produces results.

• An AI-powered content and campaign production system.
• Coordinated but distinct growth campaigns for students and professionals.
• Automated discovery of relevant trends, conversations, communities, and engagement opportunities.
• A student challenge, campus ambassador, and referral engine.
• A professional thought-leadership engine for Linked In and You Tube.
• A system that transforms PA-AI insights into videos, carousels, posts, articles, email content, and audience responses.
• Automated outreach to university organizations, student publications, creators, influencers, and professional communities.
• Shareable SPS result cards, leaderboards, challenges, and viral participation loops.
• A measurement dashboard connecting content activity to registrations, PA-AI Foundation completion, referrals, qualified inquiries, and paid conversion.
• A continuous testing system for messaging, creative formats, audiences, offers, and calls to action.
• Documented workflows that can be maintained, improved, and expanded by the PA-AI team.

You will use the most effective combination of existing and customized tools.

This may include:

• AI platforms and agents for research, monitoring, ideation, content creation, personalization, and analysis.
• Content-generation and production tools for writing, images, video, narration, editing, and repurposing.
• CRM and outreach systems for audience segmentation, contact management, campaign sequencing, and follow-up.
• Analytics and dashboard tools for attribution, engagement, funnel performance, and conversion measurement.
• Automation platforms such as Zapier, Make, n8n, Airtable, or comparable systems.
• APIs, webhooks, databases, and lightweight custom code where native integrations are insufficient.
• Claude or comparable AI-assisted development tools for workflow design, scripting, API integration, debugging, and documentation.

You should be able to determine when to:

• Use an existing platform as configured.
• Connect multiple…