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Premier Global Links

Founding Software Engineer – AI

san francisco, CA

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Premier Global Links lists this Founding Software Engineer – AI opportunity in san francisco, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

About the Role

Premier Global Links LLC is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to help build AI safety products that enable AI agents to operate within legal and regulatory requirements.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role focused on AI/LLM products, legal evaluations, real-time guardrails, and safety infrastructure . You will work closely with a small engineering team to turn research into production software and build customer-facing solutions from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities

Build legal evaluation systems and testing environments for AI agents.

Develop and productionize real-time guardrails for AI and LLM applications.

Build core infrastructure for AI safety and evaluation workflows.

Develop AI/LLM products and customer-facing features from 0 to 1.

Ship solutions to design partners and iterate based on real-world requirements.

Design scalable software architecture and engineering systems.

Work with evaluation harnesses, RL environments, training pipelines, or related AI infrastructure.

Translate research concepts into reliable production software.

Contribute to technical strategy, architecture, and engineering practices.

Take ownership of challenging problems in a fast-moving, research-oriented environment.

Required Qualifications

3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production products.

Experience building or deploying AI, LLM, or machine learning products .

Experience building core software infrastructure and customer-facing features.

Demonstrated ability to take products or major features from 0 to 1 .

Strong software engineering and computer science fundamentals.

Comfortable working independently in ambiguous, research-heavy environments.

High ownership, initiative, and ability to adapt to changing priorities.

Ability to work on-site 5 days per week in San Francisco, CA .

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with AI agents, RAG, inference infrastructure, or LLM applications .

Experience building evaluation harnesses, testing environments, RL environments, or training/post-training pipelines.

Experience with VPC, on-premises, or self-hosted deployments.

Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup.

Research or quantitative engineering experience combined with production software development.

Strong technical education or equivalent industry experience.

Technology Environment

Python | AI/ML | LLMs | AI Agents | RAG | AI Evaluations | Guardrails | Inference Infrastructure | RL Environments | Training Pipelines | Cloud Infrastructure

Compensation & Benefits

$185,000–$250,000 annual salary , based on experience and qualifications.

Equity opportunity.

Potential for expanded technical leadership responsibilities as the company grows.

High-impact opportunity within an early-stage AI technology company.

Work Arrangement

On-Site – San Francisco, CA

Employees are expected to work from the San Francisco office 5 days per week .

Career Growth

This founding engineering position offers an opportunity to take significant ownership of technical strategy, architecture, and product development as the engineering organization expands.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Premier Global Links LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered based on their skills, experience, education, and qualifications.

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Worksite address

san francisco, CA, 94199, US

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