Alpha Associates Recruitment ยท 1 week ago
Founding AI Engineer
NYC Metro Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$125K/yr - $200K/yrAlpha Associates Recruitment is partnered with an early-stage team building real-world AI systems for U.S. public safety. They are seeking a founding-level engineer with strong backend experience and practical AI deployment skills to contribute to the development of secure and resilient distributed systems.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Rick McGhee
Responsibilities
Building secure, resilient distributed systems (Python, React, modern infra)
Deploying LLMs, VLMs, and applied ML into production
Designing data pipelines for both unstructured and structured data
Contributing to agentic system development that can reason, plan, and act
Qualification
Required
Strong backend depth
Practical AI deployment experience
Building secure, resilient distributed systems (Python, React, modern infra)
Deploying LLMs, VLMs, and applied ML into production
Designing data pipelines for both unstructured and structured data
Contributing to agentic system development that can reason, plan, and act
Deep backend engineering experience with AI grounding
Curiosity and adaptability in a fast-moving AI landscape
Builder mindset, comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration
Background checks required due to the nature of the work
Preferred
NYC preferred
Bay Area or US-based hybrid available
Benefits
Founding-level equity
Bonuses
3% 401(k)
Unlimited PTO
Health & dental
Life & disability cover
Wellness perks
Company
Alpha Associates Recruitment
Alpha Associates Recruitment are specialists in Technology recruitment.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase