Squint · 2 days ago
Applied AI Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $270K/yr
8+ years expSquint is a company focused on empowering frontline manufacturing operators through innovative technology that integrates AI and AR capabilities. The Applied AI Engineer will be responsible for transforming unstructured manufacturing inputs into structured knowledge, developing reasoning experiences, and building advanced visual understanding systems to enhance productivity in manufacturing environments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Augmented RealityEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingSoftware
Responsibilities
Ship AI-powered features rapidly—from prototype to production to customer reality. This includes work such as:
Transform unstructured manufacturing inputs into structured knowledge. Build and iterate on systems capable of semantically understanding a wide variety of manufacturing material (documents, media, and more) and representing them with high fidelity on the Squint platform
Develop best-in-class reasoning experiences. Build systems that leverage this structured knowledge serve fast, accurate answers directly to the shop floor–where there is no margin for error
Leverage differentiated data to produce novel, domain-specific insights for manufacturers. Create methods that synthesize information and surface meaningful signals for customers
Build advanced photo and video-based visual understanding. Iterate on AI systems that interpret manufacturing environments and actions, improving accuracy, speed, and robustness across varied conditions
Creating evaluation and feedback loops. Build generic, reusable tooling for evaluating AI systems over time. Instrument product flows to gather automatic feedback and continually improve correctness, prevent regressions, and accelerate iteration
Qualification
Required
8+ years shipping production software, with significant experience deploying AI/ML systems
Deep understanding of the transformer architecture and modern LLM techniques
Production experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch preferred)
Experience fine-tuning and deploying LLMs in production environments
A builder's mindset
Strong product intuition and customer empathy
Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action, iteration, and measurable results
Benefits
Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental care
Flexible PTO Policy
Lunch and Dinner Service
Wellness Benefit
Maven Family Planning Benefits
Partnership with Care.com
Mental Health Services
401(k) Retirement Plan
Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit for Parking & Public Transit
Company-wide Retreats
Company
Squint
Squint is a manufacturing intelligence platform that helps streamline factory procedures and enhance team execution.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$59MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalMenlo Ventures
2025-08-12Series B· $40M
2023-11-29Series A· $13M
2023-04-01Seed· $3.5M
Leadership Team
Devin Bhushan
Founder & CEO
Dylan Conway
Head of Customer Success
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