Alpha Associates Recruitment · 18 hours ago
Founding AI Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$120K/yr - $250K/yr
2+ years expAlpha Associates Recruitment is partnering with an early-stage AI team that is building next-generation agentic AI systems. They are seeking a Founding AI Engineer to join onsite in San Francisco, working directly with the cofounders to ship AI products that feel human and reason reliably.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Rick McGhee
Responsibilities
End-to-end ownership of AI systems: retrieval, reasoning, tool use, and safety
Ship agentic matchmaking & chat features from research to production
Build prompt & model evaluation pipelines to support fast iteration
Optimise AI systems for latency, consistency, and human-likeness
Design context-engineering pipelines and observability dashboards
Qualification
Required
2–4+ years in AI/LLM development or a standout portfolio of AI agents
Strong TypeScript & Python skills with solid CS fundamentals
Experience with multiple LLM providers, tool-calling, and RAG pipelines
Practical prompt engineering & evaluation experience
Builder's mindset: thrives with ambiguity, ships quickly, and cares about UX
Benefits
0.1%–0.4% equity
Company
Alpha Associates Recruitment
Alpha Associates Recruitment are specialists in Technology recruitment.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase