Senior Founding AI Engineer — Agent Runtime
- $200k – $250k • 1.5% – 2.0%
- |
- |7 years of exp
- |Full Time
Posted: 3 months ago• Recruiter recently active
Job Location
Remote Work Policy
In office
Visa Sponsorship
Not Available
RelocationNot Allowed
Skills
Machine Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs)
About the job
As our Senior Founding AI Engineer - Agent Runtime, you will own the execution system behind an autonomous AI sales agent.
This is not a typical LLM application. You’ll be building a policy-driven execution system where model outputs are constrained, evaluated, and enforced by a deterministic runtime.
Reporting directly to the CTO/Co-Founder, you will play a critical role in shaping both the technical architecture and product direction. The systems you build will negotiate real contracts, protect real revenue, and operate within real-world constraints. The quality of your engineering is the difference between an AI that closes deals and one that gives away margin.
What You’ll Do
- Own the end-to-end execution system — including the agent pipeline and the event-driven runtime that governs lifecycle, state, and policy enforcement
- Design and evolve a multi-stage agent pipeline (intent classification, context assembly, reasoning, response generation) as a cohesive, testable system
- Build and maintain a robust evaluation framework — defining correctness and catching regressions before they reach customers
- Work within a structured rules and policy system — including constraints, escalation logic, and commercial guardrails
- Design systems that are safe by construction, ensuring the agent operates within pricing, legal, and approval boundaries at the architecture level
- Architect context assembly — determining what to include, retrieve, compress, or discard as complexity scales
- Build instrumentation and feedback loops so every interaction improves system performance over time
- Make the agent configurable and increasingly self-sufficient — start from the rules, guardrails, and communication guidelines customers define today; build the instrumentation and feedback loops that reduce how much explicit configuration is needed tomorrow
- Lay the foundation for a self-improving system, where outcomes drive better models, smarter context selection, and improved decision-making
- Engage with early customers to validate assumptions and translate real-world usage into product direction
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