AI Engineer

AI Engineer

Location: San Francisco or New York City

About Pathwork

Pathwork is redesigning life & health insurance jobs for the AI age. We believe the 2.5M professionals in the $1T life and health insurance industry dont need better tools; they need a new operating system.

Weve already proven it:

• 40 top brokerages and national carriers use Pathwork

• Active pilots with multiple top-10 insurance companies

• 150% QoQ growth every quarter since launch

Built from day one as AI-native Pathwork uses agentic orchestration structured data pipelines predictive models and generative AI to transform insurance distributionbringing speed structure and intelligence to outdated workflows.

Why Join Us

• Category-defining product already in use by national brokerages and insurers

• $3.75M in funding from top VCs

• Deep founder experience: Work closely with experienced founders whove built and scaled companies from zero to IPO in insurance and AI

• Scenic focused intentional: Work from the Presidio in SF or our Domino Park office in Brooklynspaces built for walking meetings deep work and ambitious thinking.

• Early team deep ownership real impact: Youll shape the systems the stack and the trajectory of the product.

• High-trust & Long-term oriented: Grow with a team that values trust authenticity learning and lasting impact. Your contributions will help shape our product culture and the long-term legacy of the company.

Our Stack

Python TypeScript FastAPI Postgres Qdrant LangGraph Whisper AWS (Lambda EC2 ECS S3) Terraform React

About the Role

Were hiring an AI engineer a full-stack strategic builder who can take a large project from a working prototype to an industry-defining product. Youll lead development of our agentic AI systems owning model orchestration retrieval real-time inference evaluation and production infrastructure and collaborating closely with the founding team on product and technical strategy.

What Youll Own

• Build the engine: Design and own end-to-end agentic systemsretrieval orchestration inference eval and feedback loops

• Scale the stack: Shape our architecture across model interfaces data pipelines vector DBs and streaming infrastructure

• Ship fast: Partner with product and design to prototype test and launch AI-driven features that deliver real value

• Improve performance: Continuously optimize accuracy latency and robustness through fine-tuning eval frameworks and data iteration

• Learn from the field: Join sales and customer calls to understand real-world pain points pressure-test features and translate feedback into product improvements

• Support growth: Build infrastructure and tools that help the whole company move fasterdebugging observability agent testing

• Build your team: Hire mentor and collaborate with engineers who care about craft velocity and real-world impact

You Might Be a Fit If You...

• Have 510 years of experience building AI or ML-powered systems ideally in high-growth or early-stage environments

• Have shipped real products that use LLMs retrieval orchestration or streaming inferencenot just prototypes

• Think full-stack end-to-end: Youre comfortable moving between modeling infra and product-facing code

• Have an entrepreneurial mindset and thrive on building from scratchsystems processes tools and the team

• Can explain complex ideas clearly especially to non-technical teammates customers and stakeholders

• Thrive in ambiguity and take ownership in fast-paced high-trust environments

• Bonus: Experience with vertical software businesses or agentic AI systems

What Youll Get

• Competitive comp meaningful equity

• Employee-centric benefits including:

  • High 401(k( match and FSA program

  • Modern employer-paid health benefits designed to support you on your terms

• Real ownership autonomy and direct collaboration with the founders

• A chance to define a category and shape a product from scratch

• A hybrid culture anchored in SF and NYC4 days a week in our Presidio HQ or our Williamsburg office on Domino Parkwhere youll work side-by-side with the founding team shape our rituals and help create the moments and memories that define our company.

Required Experience:

IC