Founding Applied AI Engineer

About Ritually

Ritually is building the definitive process discovery platform for back office work. Our product fuses underutilized system telemetry with computer vision to help large enterprise and scaling mid-market companies deeply understand and reimagine their highest value and most repetitive processes for a world where humans and agents work together. We're based in New York and Denver.

We believe deeply in trust (of our customers and each other), craft, customer obsession, and speed.

You'll be joining an AI-native, fast-moving, and repeat founding team. Ritually's founders previously built and exited a startup (Involvio) to Cisco. The company is funded and working with design partners.

The role

This is a founding applied-AI role. You'll be building our core data pipeline and intelligence layer with the founding team from 0-1 You'll be tackling our largest technical challenges across technologies.

What you'll do

Design and build data pipelines that capture and turn high volumes of system activity into structured, queryable data.
Turn raw activity streams into processes: sessionize event logs, cluster recurring sequences, and use LLMs to label and summarize what's happening.
Build the evaluation backbone from scratch: stand up synthetic data generation pipelines that produce labeled scenarios to measure accuracy and catch regressions.
Own data quality and privacy.
Partner closely with the founders and the rest of engineering to ship features end to end.

What we're looking for

• 1-4 years of experience in data engineering, AI/ML engineering, or backend work with a data focus (some of this can be project or research experience).
• Strong in Python and/or TypeScript, comfortable in SQL, and able to build data pipelines you can trust.
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs structured output, prompting, and wrangling non-determinism while keeping behavior reliable.
• A practical sense for evaluation: you know that "it looks right" isn't the same as "it's measurably right."
• Care about data privacy and handling sensitive information responsibly.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a real appetite to own a hard, open-ended problem.

Nice to have

• Background in process mining, sequence / event-log analysis, or workflow analytics.
• Deeper PostgreSQL: window functions, partitioning, pg_cron, query performance.
• Embeddings and vector search (pgvector) or semantic retrieval.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure.
• Any prior early-stage startup experience.
• Degree in computer science or a related field.