Founding AI Engineer, Full-Stack

Who are we?
Pegasi is on a mission to unlock high-stakes AI for scalable impact. We're well-funded by top VCs in San Francisco and working with top Fortune 500s. We're working on novel models, new methods, and pushing cutting-edge research to production around AI reliability and safety.

Founder is a former Data Scientist at BCG building Conversational AI solutions for F500s and saw firsthand the challenges deploying LLMs. He holds his first degree, an MSc from Oxford and attended Harvard as a postgrad doing AI research at MGH.

Who you are:
We're seeking a Founding AI Engineer to build the core infrastructure that transforms experimental AI into production-ready systems. You'll work across our entire stack, with strong opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• Strong full-stack engineering background with production experience
• Expertise in ML engineering and modern AI frameworks
• Proficiency in Rust/Go for backend systems, Python for our SDK, and TypeScript for frontend development
• Experience optimizing and deploying ML models at scale
• Experience working for a startup
• Bonus: PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, Math, Physics, or related field
• Bonus: Applied AI experience working with PyTorch and implementing papers
• Bonus: Based in New York and excited to work closely with the founding team

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package (salary, equity, benefits) reflective of a founding member's contribution
• Unlimited growth opportunities to learn and grow into your own role, working on some of the most technically challenging problems of Generative AI
• A driver's seat to building with a world-class startup founder backed by top VCs
• Tuition reimbursement towards AI courses

Our startup recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected statuses as required by applicable law.

Our dedication to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, equity and inclusion is more than a commitment - it is the foundation of what we do. And thus we strongly encourage people from ALL backgrounds to apply for this position.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an Employment Visa at this time.