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Founding AI Engineer Phaselab
Location: San Francisco
Type: Fulltime
Salary: Competitive with equity options
About Phaselab
Phaselab is rebuilding the legacy eDiscovery industry from the ground up empowering inhouse legal teams with tools for document production that bypass the existing servicesheavy approach. Were Seed stage but are already working with Fortune 500 companies and are scaling rapidly.
The Role
Were looking for an AI Engineer to help us build and scale our core product. Youll work closely with the CTO Product Engineer and Head of Product to ship impactful features and improve performance across the stack. This is a highownership highimpact role where youll directly shape the future of Phaselabs technology.
What Youll Do
First Week
Get onboarded set up your dev environment and dive into our systems.
Ship a small update or bug fix to get familiar with the codebase.
Use the product to understand how it works and identify areas for improvement.
First Month
Participate in code reviews architectural discussions and technical documentation.
Ship two major features.
By 90 Days
Coown the AI roadmap alongside the CTO.
Bring major improvements to AI classification system performance through testing and finetuning different models.
Ship product updates daily/weekly with a strong focus on quality.
Ensure dependencies are consistently up to date.
Collaborate closely with the Head of Product CTO and Product Engineer to shape the future of the product.
What Were Looking For
3 years of experience in backend development ideally with startups or fastmoving teams.
Strong expertise in a similar serverside programming language like Python Java Golang etc.
Proficiency with frameworks like FastAPI Temporal SQLAlchemy for backend/API development.
Knowledge of NLP techniques and libraries (NLTK spaCy Hugging Face Transformers).
Experience with large language models (LLMs) and their application to document analysis.
Experience with database systems (SQL NoSQL vector store like Pinecone).
Familiarity deploying to cloud platforms (AWS GCP etc.
Familiarity with container orchestration systems (Docker Kubernetes Argo) and IaC frameworks like Terraform.
A bias for action: You ship fast and iterate based on feedback.
Strong product sense: You think beyond the code and care about delivering an exceptional user experience.
Why Join Us
Impact: Your work will directly shape the product and the future of the company.
Growth: High ownership deep collaboration with company and technical leadership.
Speed: We move fast ship often and value autonomy.
Culture: Our team is kind collaborative inquisitive and inclusive and we want to keep it that way. We have high standards for quality and ethics and help each other learn in order to reach our objectives. We think technology is best built by teams with a diversity of background thought and experience.
Every team member is a human first and we strive to create a culture and environment that supports your career goals and respects all of the hats you wear in life not just the ones that earn you a paycheck.
Our Team
We were founded in 2023 by SaaS and data experts: Josh (CEO) lead Chartbeat as CTO to $70M ARR and exit; David (COO and Head of Product) lead Cortico (MIT spinoff) from 0>1 as COO; Paul (CTO) ran search infrastructure at Reddit and was engineer #7 at Moat (acquired by Oracle for $850M).
Lets build something great together!
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