Acceler8 Talent · 14 hours ago
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$120K/yr - $250K/yr
2+ years expAcceler8 Talent is reimagining how people meet through an innovative AI-driven social platform. They are seeking a Founding AI Engineer to develop and optimize matchmaking systems and human-like AI chat agents while collaborating closely with the founding team.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Isabella Francois
Responsibilities
Ship agentic matchmaking systems from research to production, owning retrieval, reasoning, tool use, and safety end-to-end
Build human-like AI chat agents, optimizing for latency, consistency, and perceived realism
Design and maintain context engineering pipelines (RAG, memory, summarization, grounding, compression)
Create prompt and model evaluation harnesses (offline + online) with A/B testing and rapid iteration
Stand up observability for agents (traces, cost, failures, hallucinations, guardrails) and product-facing dashboards
Collaborate daily with cofounders and product to translate user problems into shipped agent behaviors
Write clean, maintainable code and build internal tools and SDKs used by engineers and AIs
Qualification
Required
2–4+ years of relevant experience or an exceptional portfolio of LLM/agent projects (GitHub, demos, write-ups)
Strong programming fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, testing, profiling)
Proficiency in TypeScript (product code, services) and Python (model ops, evals, data)
Experience working with multiple LLM providers, tool/function calling, and model fallbacks
Hands-on experience with RAG (indexing, embeddings, reranking) and practical prompt engineering
Ability to define metrics and KPIs (accuracy, latency, cost, safety), run A/B tests, and incorporate human feedback
Comfortable with MongoDB in production; experience with vector databases is a plus
Preferred
Agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI)
LLM eval/observability tools (Langfuse, Promptfoo, Ragas, TruLens)
MCP
retrieval systems
safety/guardrails work
Benefits
Meaningful equity
Company
Acceler8 Talent
Acceler8 Talent partners with technology companies to propel their funding and business forward.
11-50 employees
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Early StageLeadership Team
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