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Founding AI Engineer


Pay$130000.00 / year
LocationSan Francisco/California
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: 32659466633

      Join to apply for the Founding AI Engineer role at Synth AI (YC F24)

      Join to apply for the Founding AI Engineer role at Synth AI (YC F24)

      This range is provided by Synth AI (YC F24). Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

      Base pay range

      $130,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr

      As a founding AI engineer, you'll work across our stack to productionize, maintain, and scale our AI agent monitoring and training infrastructure.\ \ You'll have significant influence over technical direction and full autonomy.\ \ You'll be working on

      • Putting battle-tested learning algorithms into production.
      • Building infrastructure for agent simulation and live code-synthesis.
      • Owning the user-facing AI layer e.g. our Cuvier agent, an AI assistant that helps the user review where their software is failing.

      What We're Looking For

      • Track record of executing on projects quickly, taking full ownership of outcomes, and making trade-offs
      • Substantial practical experience using LLMs in products
      • Curiosity and drive to solve new problems and implement the right product form factor for a novel offering.

      Why join us

      • Live on the frontier of agent post-training, across multiple fronts. Prompt optimization, SFT, RL, and code synthesis. Work with a team who's been working on the topic for years.
      • Help companies across AI verticals deliver software they're excited about and solve p0 accuracy and reliability problems for some of the best customers out there
      • Operate with full ownership and autonomy

    Seniority level

    • Seniority level

      Mid-Senior level

    Employment type

    • Employment type

      Full-time

    Job function

    • Job function

      Engineering and Information Technology
    • Industries

      Software Development

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