NegotiateAI Inc. · 1 day ago
Founding Agentic AI Product Engineer
San Jose
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expNegotiateAI is a revolutionary enterprise platform focused on transforming procurement into a strategic function. The Founding AI Engineer will build core intelligence and product flows, implementing agentic AI capabilities while shaping the user experience of the platform.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Build AI agents end to end, including multi-step workflows for:
Taxonomy ingestion and cleanup
Chemical and part classification and CAS lookup
Entity resolution and attribute extraction
Benchmarking across suppliers, SKUs, and regions
Automated supplier outreach, negotiation preparation, and communication
Purchasing automation and exception handling
Architect modular agentic pipelines using LLMs, RAG, embeddings, and deterministic logic to ensure reliability and actionability
Define intuitive, powerful product flows that unify data cleaning, benchmarking, agent actions, and user decision-making into a coherent experience
Collaborate with the founder and engineering team to translate messy customer problems into crisp, scalable product patterns and reusable AI components
Design the intelligence layer and core data model, including taxonomies, schema, semantic relationships, and supplier or part hierarchies
Implement LLM and RAG pipelines for synonym resolution, unit of measure normalization, multi-language parsing, attribute extraction, and CAS-level matching
Build evaluation, monitoring, and guardrail systems to ensure agents are accurate, safe, auditable, and enterprise-ready
Ensure the platform complies with rigorous data handling requirements including anonymization, tokenization, SOC II principles, and GDPR alignment
Influence the long-term product direction, shaping the evolution into a broader industrial operations AI layer
Qualification
Required
6-8 plus years experience in AI engineering, ML systems, or technical product roles
Demonstrated ability to build agentic workflows or multi-step AI systems
Great design & product judgment, ownership of major product lines in earlier companies
Can build at 10x speed using tools like Cursor and ship high-quality features extremely quickly
0 to 1 startup experience (Seed to Series B) shipping real product fast
Ability to write production-grade code (Node, Python, TypeScript) and build quickly
Strong product instinct with the ability to design clean, scalable user flows
Ability to architect systems: data models, pipelines, services, agent frameworks
Experience integrating LLMs, RAG, embeddings, and semantic search
Bias toward action and rapid iteration
Desire to build a B plus enterprise AI company and own a meaningful piece of it
A plus player with exceptional technical and execution ability and strong ownership mentality
Preferred
Early large-company experience (Apple, Google, Palantir, Databricks, Ramp, Scale AI, etc.)
Former Founder, founding engineer or very early tech lead hire
Experience building consumer-grade UX or high-polish enterprise interfaces
Experience working with industrial or manufacturing data (not required)
Familiarity with ERP systems, supply chain, chemicals, or procurement
Experience designing or implementing observability, evals, or reinforcement loops for AI agents
Company
NegotiateAI Inc.
Backed by Menlo Ventures, NegotiateAI captures millions in savings across your manufacturing procurement spend.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase