AustinWorks · 15 hours ago
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid Level
$200K/yr - $300K/yr
2+ years expAustinWorks is a growing company focused on building domain-specific AI agents that automate complex enterprise workflows. They are seeking an AI Engineer to design, evaluate, and productionize AI agent systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability and real-world application.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Charlie Austin
Responsibilities
Build end-to-end evaluation frameworks to measure and improve agent performance
Experiment with modern agentic techniques (e.g. multi-agent systems, feedback loops, reasoning-from-feedback)
Design and implement lightweight orchestration layers, services, and internal tools that enable agents to operate reliably
Translate emerging research and ideas into practical production experiments
Work closely with product and leadership to ship quickly and iterate based on real customer usage
Qualification
Required
Strong Python experience and comfort building production systems
2–4+ years of hands-on ML / AI experience, ideally in applied or product-focused roles
Experience owning systems end-to-end, from early prototypes to production
Clear communicator who can reason through tradeoffs and explain decisions
High ownership mindset — comfortable operating with ambiguity and moving fast
Preferred
Experience at an early-stage startup (0→1 or first ~30 engineers)
Background in B2B SaaS or enterprise software
Prior founder or early engineer experience
Advanced degree in AI/ML (can offset years of experience)
Company
AustinWorks
Proven experience recruiting for technical talent with speed, precision and no bull.
0-1 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase