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Job description
Specialist Recruitment Consultant, building out and scaling top start‑up teams
$120,000 - $200,000 + 0.5‑2% Equity + Flexible PTO
Are you an AI engineer who wants to build and own the core agentic systems powering an AI platform used by Fortune 500 companies, transforming manual compliance workflows into autonomous intelligence, whilst benefiting from full autonomy and founding‑level equity?
This is a rare opportunity to join a YC‑backed, fast‑growing AI startup tackling a multi‑billion dollar market historically dominated by manual processes and consulting firms. The team is building AI agent systems that autonomously perform complex enterprise workflows end‑to‑end—data collection, analysis, verification, and documentation. Every output is auditable, verifiable, and delivered at scales and speeds impossible with traditional manual processes.
You will own the core agentic engine of the platform, designing how AI agents plan, execute, and verify messy real‑world tasks. This includes building production‑grade agent workflows focused on reliability, owning core architecture decisions around orchestration and state management, defining human‑in‑the‑loop patterns, crafting error handling and recovery systems, and continuously improving agent capabilities by applying lessons learned from each deployment.
You’ll report directly to the founding team and CTO and operate as a key owner of the agent architecture—how agents behave, how they integrate with the broader system, and how they deliver reliable results for customers. Expect deep technical responsibility, product influence, and the chance to define new best practices for agentic systems as enterprise workflows serve as ideal problem definitions for AI agents.
The Role
Work directly with founders and CTO to design and ship agentic AI systems that autonomously perform complex enterprise work end‑to‑end
Build production‑grade AI agent workflows focused on reliability and solving concrete customer problems, not research or model tuning
Design and implement how AI agents plan, execute, and verify complex, messy real‑world tasks
Own core agent architecture decisions including orchestration, state management, error handling, and human‑in‑the‑loop patterns
Define new best practices for agentic systems as enterprise workflows serve as ideal problem definitions for AI agents
Iterate rapidly based on direct user feedback, shipping agent capabilities that get used in production immediately
The Person
3+ years of professional engineering experience with focus on AI/ML systems
Strong proficiency in Python and experience with React/TypeScript
Experience building agentic systems with LLM platforms (Anthropic, OpenAI, or similar)
Deep hands‑on experience with LLMs in production — building reliable agentic systems, not just API calls
Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL database design
Experience with AWS and modern cloud infrastructure
Comfortable working in a high‑autonomy, feedback‑driven early‑stage startup environment
Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Full‑time
Location: Mountain View, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)
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Worksite address
san francisco, CA, 94199, US
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